The clockywock doesn't properly clear the screen when it's set to sliding mode (which makes the clock move once every minute to prevent monitor burnin). I've placed screenshots of the problem on http://qtea.nl/clockywock/ . The first two images show the problem: on the left is the status before the first slide, on the right the status after the slide. The top clock is the original, the bottom clock is the patched version. As you can see on the upper right image, the white block representing the 12 wasn't cleared during the move. The patch for this can be found here: http://qtea.nl/clockywock/clockywock-slidingbug.patch That for the bug, now the new features. Somewhere last week I sent an email to the author of clockywock with the patches of the new features, but so far he hasn't responded yet. Maybe we can apply the patches to clockywock in the meantime? The two features are: * Colours * Slightly improved menu The original version does not use any colours, and this makes the clock almost unreadable on a low res console. The menu has been improved in order to better be able to adjust the snooze time, alarm time and alarm length: instead of only being able to increase these values, one can now decrease them too. I have extended the ebuild file to always apply the sliding bug patch, and to apply the other two patches when the vanilla USE flag is not in use. Ebuild: http://qtea.nl/clockywock/clockywock-0.2.3.ebuild Patches: http://qtea.nl/clockywock/clockywock-slidingbug.patch http://qtea.nl/clockywock/clockywock-colours.patch http://qtea.nl/clockywock/clockywock-extendedmenu.patch All-in-1: http://qtea.nl/clockywock/ebuild_and_patches.tar Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start clockywock 2. Enable sliding mode (press 's') 3. Wait for the slide Actual Results: The clock leaves a trace of characters with every move Expected Results: The clock should have moved without leaving characters behind
Created attachment 132653 [details] Improved ebuild that always applies the sliding bug patch, and the new feature patches only when vanilla USE flag is not set
Created attachment 132654 [details, diff] Patch to fix the sliding bug
Created attachment 132655 [details, diff] Patch to improve the menu
Created attachment 132657 [details, diff] Patch to add colours
Comment on attachment 132657 [details, diff] Patch to add colours Oops, old patch
Created attachment 132659 [details, diff] Patch to add colours
Hmm, you have to send these to upstream ( http://www.soomka.com ) if you want them applied also in portage -- unless upstream is totally unresponsive..
I did send it upstream a few weeks before I opened this bug, I have yet to receive a reply. I understand it's not Gentoo's task to add/maintain new features. Can we apply the sliding-bug patch until it's fixed upstream and close this bug?
Sorry it took so long! +*clockywock-0.2.3d (26 Mar 2010) + + 26 Mar 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + +clockywock-0.2.3d.ebuild: + Version bump wrt #194801 by Ceesjan Luiten. Upstream has included your patches, thanks!
