Bugzilla – Bug 12290
Digital clock tweaks
Last modified: 2009-10-01 14:31:27 UTC
After discussing with Noah I'd like the following changes: 1. Remove the year and center the month in the space on the right. The year is really pretty unnecessary and just the last two digits aren't super intuitive. 2. Move the teal day to white. That color highlight is also unnecessary and makes the page look unbalanced. Noah to provide an updated reference image.
Can we make the date and time formats user configurable like on the IP3K datetime screensaver? Also, isn't date-month vs.month-date a localization issue where we should support both?
Get rid of the little boxes and proved some degree of formatting control.
And the background is way too bright. If you try to compensate by dialing down the overall brightness of the SBT you end up with a very flat, low contrast clock screen that looks like crap.
Dean- items 1 and 2 have been corrected. Is there any further direction or can this be set to resolved?
The default clock with the grey background isn't really working. it's too bright to use at night, and in bright lights doesn't have enough contrast. Let's remove it and leave just "Digital Clock" and "Digital Clock (Black)"
"Digital Clock" is the gray background...are you saying to move the transparent one to be the default "Digital Clock"? Noah should weigh in on this. The black and transparent background clocks were just quick hacks done solely by me, and I do not claim to be a graphic designer.
Yeah, I had a conversation with Noah about it yesterday and decided to remove the grey one. The black and transparent ones should stay and the black one should be indicated as such. On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:14 AM, bugs@bugs.slimdevices.com wrote: > https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12290 > > > > > > --- Comment #6 from Ben Klaas <bklaas@slimdevices.com> 2009-07-17 > 08:14:24 --- > "Digital Clock" is the gray background...are you saying to move the > transparent > one to be the default "Digital Clock"? > > Noah should weigh in on this. The black and transparent background > clocks were > just quick hacks done solely by me, and I do not claim to be a graphic > designer. > > -- > Configure bugmail: https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are on the CC list for the bug. > You reported the bug.
Dean, The decision to remove the "gray background" will NOT solve the issue of brightness at night. Even on a black background (where you are inc. the contrast) it will be far too bright even using the ambient light sensor to dim the display. Have you tested this and feel that it is acceptable? Please see https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12447. This was filed as an enhancement of what we currently are using for the "gray" treatment. The general concept is for a night and day version of the default. The only change would be to the font color and background to switch btwn day and night.
Can't the gray background just be lightened? I really like the effect, but it's far too bright to be useful.
The night-time problem is that there's too much area of the screen that's grey. let's get rid of that and just use black. Re: bug 12447 - let's fix the ambient light dimming to work in all light arrangements rather than hack around the current bheavior.
Moving to the product SqueezePlay because this bug appears to apply to any player based on that application code. Feel free to move it back if it's specific to the single original product.
If we REALLY wanted to be clever with this, we'd change the background based on what time of day it is :-).
That is my exact proposal. See https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12447
this is an administrative shuffle on priority fields to help make better judgment on the top end of the priority list. P4->P5, P3->P4, and P2->P3.
there's nothing to fix specific to this bug any more