Binary package hint: gworldclock

Currently, the list of time zones shown by the application needs to be saved explicitly either by selecting ’Save Zones’ from the File menu, or by choosing to save it when exiting the application. It would be a usability improvement if Gworldclock instead used implicit save, i.e. saving the list automatically each time it’s changed, like Gnome usually does.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gworldclock 1.4.4-7ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 09ae689090491ca53449589269e4bfd8
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Mon Jul 5 10:47:08 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 ”Karmic Koala” – Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fi_FI.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gworldclock

I would go further than the original report and say that the icons are pretty useless in themselves: an envelope with an arrow does… what? Email the status to somebody? And a set of gears… huh? Icons ought to be as self-evident as possible, and having to hover over them to see the tooltips to understand their meaning is a failure in the icons’ design IMO.

With most statuses being quite limited in length, there’s plenty of screen real estate available, so why not just use text indicators for each of the icon’s functions, such as ’Reply’ and ’More…’?

(Hope I’m not making this sound too brash, I think Gwibber is an excellent tool and this is a minor annoyance.)