[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Display clock in frame

[Utkarsh Tiwari]

Hi,
    It seems that someone had already submitted a patch for the frame
clock -> http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg03934.html.
Then why isn't it yet implemented in Sugar?

Thanks,
Utkarsh Tiwari

On 4/11/16, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> Thanks for offering to work on these features.
>
> They have been discussed and designed previously, please do some
> research into previous discussions.  Search sugar-devel@ archives
> carefully, and summarise what you find.
>
> There are two features in the ticket;
>
> 1.  adjust clock,
>
> 2.  display clock.
>
> --
>
> For adjust clock, refer to my pull request (you have seen this
> already) which uses NTP;
> https://github.com/godiard/clock-activity/pull/2
>
> Let's call this "adjust clock to network time".  This function may be
> moved from the clock activity to the My Settings control panel in
> Sugar.
>
> Setting the clock manually could be offered if NTP fails.  Let's call
> this "adjust clock manually".
>
> At OLPC, my main concern with an "adjust clock manually" feature is
> that it may stop laptop boot because of deployment security and date
> limited lease signatures.  To control for this impact, I suggest;
>
> 1.  provide GSettings to disable "adjust clock manually" feature,
> which will be used by olpc-os-builder,
>
> Please make a feature page:
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features
>
> --
>
> For displaying the clock, refer to previous discussions, for example;
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Frame#Frame_Clock
>
> Please take over and update the feature page:
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Clock_in_Frame
>
> At OLPC, my main concern with display clock feature is that it will
> wake up the CPU and consume power on a regular basis.  This scales
> across the laptop population.  To control for this impact, I suggest;
>
> 1.  by default, display hours and minutes, not seconds,
>
> 2.  blank the clock before an automatic power management suspend
> event, which requires some interprocess communication with powerd.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:37:24AM +0530, Utkarsh Tiwari wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     I would like to work on this feature-enhancement ->
>> https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3829.
>> Could anyone here please share the expected behaviors and design ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Utkarsh Tiwari
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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