[7972] in Athena Bugs
7.3 dash and clocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Aug 18 19:45:35 1991
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 91 16:45:11 -0700
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@cats.UCSC.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I started an analog clock from the 7.3 dash. There is a second hand
updating once every second. BUG NUMBER 1: The second hand on the
clock started by dash should update at the same rate as the second
hand on the clock I get when I type "xclock -analog" from the command
line.
I started a digital clock from the same dash. It is only updating
once per minute. BUG NUMBER 2: The digital clock should update at the
same rate as the analog clock. One of them has to change :-).
I quit from dash. The analog clock went away, but the digital one did
not. BUG NUMBER 3: Either they both should go away, or neither of
them should go away. There's no reason for one of them to be using a
built-in clock and one of them not to; it's a gratuitous
incompatibility.
I'd say that both the analog and digital should be calling "xclock",
or both of them should be using internal versions. If the latter,
then that introduces BUG NUMBER 4, which is that dash clocks won't
obey xclock resources in the .Xresources file, even though naive users
are obviously going to expect them to since the clocks that dash
starts look exactly like xclock's.
jik
