[gentoo-user] Kworldclock & KDE 4.3.1

[gentoo-user] Kworldclock & KDE 4.3.1

[Philip Webb]

I asked this before without any response (smile).

Kworldclock 3.5.10 is a useful little app, but is absent from 4.3.1 .
I've found  2  versions of the problem :
  KDE bug 184088 , which suggests the problem is Gentoo packaging ;
  Gentoo forum 

    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-787140-highlight-kworldclock.html?sid=bc3747cb7a2906acb862ce70e686a936

    which refers to Gentoo bug 280834 .
A bug search of Gentoo for 'kworldclock' yields 'zarro'.

Bug 280834 solves the poster's problem (how to add it to the KDE desktop),
but implies that that is how you have to use it in KDE 4 ,
ie there is no equivalent of running 'kworldclock' in KDE 3 .

As I don't (want to) use the KDE 4 desktop (I use Fluxbox instead),
this suggests I'm stuck with keeping the KDE 3 version around,
if I want a quick + simple way of seeing how the planet is lit up
& -- much more important -- finding local time for major cities
(I used it recently when needing to phone someone in New Zealand).

Is it possible to get Marble to show the effects of Kworldclock ?
Is there any other similar app from outside KDE ?
  -- Xearth shows light/dark, but not current local times AFAIK.

I plan to file bugs with KDE + Gentoo,
but want to be sure of the situation before doing so.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kworldclock & KDE 4.3.1

[Philip Webb]

091002 Philip Webb wrote:
> Is it possible to get Marble to show the effects of Kworldclock ?
> Is there any other similar app from outside KDE ?
>   -- Xearth shows light/dark, but not current local times AFAIK.

I have submitted KDE bug 209458 to request current local times in Marble.

BTW you can get day/night shading in Marble
via 'satellite view -> view -> sun control -> sun shading'.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kworldclock & KDE 4.3.1

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> I asked this before without any response (smile).
>
> Kworldclock 3.5.10 is a useful little app, but is absent from 4.3.1 .

It looks like a KDE4 version of kworldclock was around in early 4.0
days but has been removed due to the fact that it does not have a
maintainer/anyone working on it. You can see the most recent sources
(not touched in over a year) from here, maybe it might build against
newer KDE4 versions. Let us know if you succeed. :)

http://websvn.kde.org/tags/unmaintained/4/kworldclock/