{"id":445,"date":"2010-07-08T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2010\/07\/08\/project-announcement-clockcalendarwidget\/"},"modified":"2010-07-08T20:42:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:42:38","slug":"project-announcement-clockcalendarwidget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2010\/07\/08\/project-announcement-clockcalendarwidget\/","title":{"rendered":"Project announcement: ClockCalendarWidget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although you can hardly call this one a &#8216;project&#8217;, I still categorized it as such as it comes with a matching <a href=\"http:\/\/gitorious.org\/clockcalendarwidget\">project on gitorious<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In corporate environments, administrators like to put users in jail, or with an euphemism: a sandbox. At our company, the day has come that we can&#8217;t double-click on the system clock to quickly look up a date, do a simple time measurement, etc.. Although I understand it is a bug in Windows XP, it is still annoying as **** since it&#8217;s quite handy and why wouldn&#8217;t I be allowed to do that when I am adminstrator of my own machine anyway.<\/p>\n<p>A workaround is putting another tool in the system tray which yields the same functionality and why not improve it while we&#8217;re at it. Today I created a very basic first version: qt clock example enhanced with seconds hand and put a calendar aside. No configuration at the moment. I created the systray icon in Inkscape and it should scale nicely in larger systray environments.<\/p>\n<p>I plan on making the colors configurable and a written time under the analog clock, with maybe a simple timing functionality as a side dish.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/clockcalendarwidget.PNG' alt='ClockCalendarWidget' \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although you can hardly call this one a &#8216;project&#8217;, I still categorized it as such as it comes with a matching project on gitorious. In corporate environments, administrators like to put users in jail, or with an euphemism: a sandbox. At our company, the day has come that we can&#8217;t double-click on the system clock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2010\/07\/08\/project-announcement-clockcalendarwidget\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project announcement: ClockCalendarWidget<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clockcalendarwidget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}