analog clock in GNOME

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Thufir wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:40:05 +0100, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> 
>>> what I'd really like to do is to have the clock in the panel use an
>>> "analog" interface.  Is that possible?
>> Caitro-clock is very nice indeed:
> 
> 
> Yes, I worked my way down, alphabetically, to cairo-clock and it's nearly 
> what I want.  The GNOME panel clock is embedded within the panel, and 
> it's possible to kinda/sorta shove cairo-clock over the panel, but it 
> just doesn't work particularly well.   Anything else?
> 
> I sorta like the clock in the panel idea of Vista, except I'd want 
> something a bit smaller.

I have never seen Vista, so I wouldn't know, sorry.
The standard clock cannot be set to analog and swapping it with another 
clock might not be smart. The thing is that the standard clock i heavily 
integrated into the system and in Evolution calendar. There are loads of 
configuration options and templates for the cairo-clock and in addition 
it can persist in all work spaces simultaneously.
One alternative could also be:
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carl at cjfh3:~$ aptitude show gpe-clock
Package: gpe-clock
State: not installed
Version: 0.25-3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 258k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2), libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libcairo2 (>= 
1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.9), 
libgpelaunch0 (>= 0.14),
          libgpeschedule0, libgpewidget1, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3), 
libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.2), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxext6, 
libxfixes3 (>=
          1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), 
libxrender1, gpe-icons
Description: alarm clock tray applet for GPE
  gpe-clock is an alarm clock dock application for the GPE Palmtop 
Environment. It displays the time in the system tray and manages simple 
alarms (single or
  weekly). It can be configured to display a digital or an analogue 
clock face.

  Homepage: http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/projects/gpe-clock.shtml

carl at cjfh3:~$
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By the way, you do not need to scroll alphabetically through Synaptic or 
what ever you used, you can filter with find. Some find it easier to use 
console applications like apt-get or aptitude. If you would like to 
install the gpe-clock, you could do as follow:

Atl-F2

sudo aptitude install gpe-clock

To put the newly installed applet on your panel, you need to right-click 
on an empty space on the panel bar and click on "Add to panel...".
For the rest, you should have no problems.

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