Re: Activity Bar Panel Provides Little Utility, Takes Up Space, And is Distracting

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

> Hi
>>
>> Fair enough. But do we, or users, spend a significant portion of our
>> desktop activity staring at the clock? Isn't the clock in many cases a
>> distraction when we need to get work done?
>
> Actually Much less of a distraction/waste than having my name, a network
> status as I am on a static IP Lan and a volume button as I have no speaker
> plugged in my PC.
> Moreover, needing an action to check the time would change the time spent
> from a blink of an eye to a few seconds.
>
> Actually, I even used to display the time of my next bus in the status area
> (until it was not compatible anymore with the shell and did not spend time
> to fix this).
>

If you did this with a custom panel applet, it's still possible as a
shell extension, and actually quite easy.

You can set this up as a calendar event in e-d-s too.