[25692] in Athena Bugs
Re: gnome-panel clock not fully functional
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Tue Jun 15 16:25:53 2004
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:42:07 -0400
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> Thanks for the report. (Though, just "bugs" is fine during early test;
> there's never a need to send a bug report to both testers and bugs.)
ah, ok. I had initially sent it to both because I was reporting
problems in both 9.2 and 9.3, but since the clipboard issue you
explained below isn't a bug, 9.2 is no longer relevant to my this report.
> The calendar pop-up is a Red Hat add-on. In 9.2 we were using the
> native gnome-panel, while in 9.3 we built it ourselves. It looks like
> more modern GNOME versions have some kind of calendar functionality in
> the clock, so that feature will likely come back in a future Athena
> release, but not during 9.3.
I'm running Gnome 2.4.1 on my Debian systems, which has the same
calendar popup functionality.
>>On my Sun 9.3.6 machine, the clock applet does not show the date
>>or the time, and displays nothing. The applet, however, does
>>still load, but is only a few pixels wide because of this.
>
> I can't reproduce this problem with a test account.
I've reproduced it with my account, as well as two test accounts (paco
and sipb3), though they were all on the same machine. I'll try a
different machine sometime later and see if it makes a difference.
> They don't do nothing; they update the clipboard, which is separate from
> the primary selection. If you fire up, say, gedit, you can observe that
> gedit's "paste" can be used to retrieve the copied date or time.
Thanks for the information.
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Kevin Chen
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