Saved timers for timer docklet

[Calcipher]

It would be nice if the timer docklet would allow the user to save pre-defined timers (available, perhaps, through the right click context menu). For example, every day I make a cup of tea and I use the timer docklet to time this, but, if I have used the timer for something else, I have to manually set it back to the desired tea brewing time. It would, further, be nice to be able to associate sounds and labels with these saved timers.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Added in rev 1669.

You probably want to set a gconf key:

/apps/docky-2/Timer/TimerMainDockItem/DismissOnClick

Set that value to false. Then the finished timer will just reset when you click it instead of going away. Timers will *not* auto-reset (we want to make sure the user is aware it expired, so the user must indicate it somehow). There is also a 'reset timer' in the timer's menu.

[Calcipher (calcipher)]

I appreciate your work on this, but I'm not sure I'm seeing the changes (2.1.0 bzr r1702). If I understand what you did correctly, you made it so that there can be several timers sitting in the bar and clicking them resets them instead of dismissing them. This is nice, but it adds a lot of clutter, what I was more going for was some sort of interface to add a new timer, with a saved label (and sound though I don't use that feature) and you'd be able to spawn one of these saved timers via a right click menu.
I'm not good at art, but this is what I mean - pretend this is a right click menu:
|-------------------------------------|
| 5m - Tea Timer |
| 60s - Gone in |
| 12h59m59s - Long Exam... |
|-------------------------------------|
| Automatically Start Timers |
| Automatically Dismiss Timers|
|-------------------------------------|

I like having the times first as you might need 5 minutes and not care that it is associated with tea, it also makes the longer labels truncate in a more logical manner (e.g. "12h59m59s - Long Examp..." vs. "Long Examp... - 12h59m59s"); to be honest I have no real justification for time first other than it looks less sloppy.

One issue that is brought up by this is how to manage saved timers. Personally, I think setting labels and sounds (as well as adding or deleting timers) might be better done in the Docky options menu instead of through the applet itself, though it might be nice to be able to click on a spawned timer and 'save' it. As an aside, having the two options at the bottom of the right click menu is a bit inconsistent with other things in Docky (i.e. it seems like something that should be pushed to the options menu instead of the applet itself).

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

You get what we have. We like to keep things simple, and this accomplishes that. If anything what we have now is too complex and we need to simplify even more!

[Calcipher (calcipher)]

Well, thanks for the work anyways. I can see how adding features to the timer applet might be more than you wanted to do and I agree with you that the current applet is a bit too complicated. Keep up the work on Docky!