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Allow to reset timer by clicking on the plugin
Status:
RESOLVED: WORKSFORME
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-time-out-plugin
Component:
General

Comments

Description credibledeniability 2012-11-18 16:45:37 CET
Hello beautiful,

I recently started using your timeout-plugin and I love it. I think forcing me away from the screen every 30 minutes is a very good idea. :) My experience with it, however, shows 2 scenarios where it still doesn't work for me.

Scenarios:

A) Ok, so the time has run out and timeout forces me to take a break. I gratefully take a break. In the meantime the telephone rings. When I get back to work, the next cycle has already begun, so I have only 21 minutes left. (Not what I want. I want 30.)

B) Like many people, I use my computer not only for screen work. It often times works for me in the background, e.g. playing music. When I really set myself to work on the screen, I start with a counter of, say, 14 minutes, before I'm sent to rest. (Not what I want. I want 30.)

Feature requests:

1) "Keep going button":
When the break is over, the window doen't close automatically. Instead, the "Postpone break" button is exchanged for a "Keep going" button. The next cycle doesn't start before I report for work by clicking the button.

2) "Double click icon to reset cycle":
I can reset the cycle to 30 minutes by simply double-clicking on the icon in the panel. This way, I can give myself 30 full minutes for the next session when I return to the screen.

I would find these 2 features very valuable. If you agree with me, I would be very grateful if you could be so kind to add these features.

Thank you so much.
Senbei
Comment 1 Landry Breuil editbugs 2012-11-19 08:31:11 CET
For 1) there's 'resume automatically' in the properties, if unchecked i think it does what you want.

For 2) there's right-click on the plugin and 'reset counter'..
Comment 2 credibledeniability 2012-11-19 12:29:12 CET
(In reply to comment #1)
That's interesting. Mine has none of the above. Which version of xfce4-time-out-plugin are we talking about? I'm running the one that comes with ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which is 0.1.1 ... am I that out of date?
Comment 3 Landry Breuil editbugs 2012-11-19 22:06:08 CET
1.0.1 has those, see http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-time-out-plugin/tree/NEWS for a list of changes since the release you use, as i dont really remember when those options were exactly added.

Bug your distro maintainers for an update, but i really doubt this'll go in a lts release, so i suppose your only option is to either backport an ubuntu package or build it yourself.
Comment 4 Raphael Groner 2012-11-20 12:43:23 CET
Could you please edit the title to something senseful? "Feature request" is too general, nobody can imagine what this bug is all about... Thanks!

Hint: It would be also the subject for all the mails going to our mailing list.
Comment 5 Stephan Arts editbugs 2012-11-20 18:14:35 CET
We could close it for the same reason... 

'We already have features... - Closing Ticket'

Please open 1 bugreport for each separate request.
Comment 6 Landry Breuil editbugs 2012-11-20 19:37:49 CET
I'm considering closing it, since the reset timer feature is already available through the context menu..
Comment 7 credibledeniability 2012-11-20 20:30:21 CET
Thanks for renaming the thread, I agree the title wasn't really saying much.

Thanks for all the advice.

I failed to build it myself... compiler is lacking gtk version 2.8, which is also not available in ubuntu 10.04. So I'm left with backporting it as my last option. I think I'd rather not do that because I fear messing up my system, as that would mean I'd have to upgrade gtk as well.. Or maybe not?

Too bad.
OK, I think you can close the thread now.
Thanks again
Comment 8 Landry Breuil editbugs 2012-11-20 21:25:05 CET
(In reply to comment #7)
> Thanks for renaming the thread, I agree the title wasn't really saying much.
> 
> Thanks for all the advice.
> 
> I failed to build it myself... compiler is lacking gtk version 2.8, which is
> also not available in ubuntu 10.04. So I'm left with backporting it as my
> last option. I think I'd rather not do that because I fear messing up my
> system, as that would mean I'd have to upgrade gtk as well.. Or maybe not?

Pretty sure ubuntu 10.04 has gtk 2.8, you need to install the development packages (libgtksomething-dev, libxfce*-dev, etc...) for the configure script to find the needed headers. The time-out plugin should compile and work against xfce 4.8 at least.

Closing the bug.

Bug #9517

Reported by:
credibledeniability
Reported on: 2012-11-18
Last modified on: 2012-11-20

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Assignee:
Florian Rivoal
CC List:
2 users

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