PI(M)P Your Clock

You may have read about my new-found fondness for Plasma’s Clock app. Following the development of a “Picture in Picture” protocol for Wayland, I remembered how I once saw someone put up a little timer window during a lunch break while screen-sharing a presentation. I figured, I wanted that, too!

KClock main application window on the page of a “Take a break” timer with a message “This timer is in Picture-in-Picture mode”. A separate small popup window in the bottom right corner containing the timer, a circle to indicate progress, and some controls (add a minute, pause, reset, return to app, and close)
KClock showing a timer popped out in a PIP window
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Be Free to Have Multiple Clocks

Back in ye olde days there was a running gag that Plasma was all about clocks. With its then-new widget system you could add as many as you wanted, after all. Plasma included not only an analog and a digital clock, there was a binary clock, too, and my all-time favorite fuzzy clock that shows the current time in a colloquial textual way, such as “Quarter to seven”.

KClock main window, a sidebar with Time, Timers, Stopwatch, Alarms, Settings. The main content include an analog and digital clock at 18:45 CEST, a list of cities (Büsingen, Toronto, Adelaide) and the time in those cities.
KClock’s world clock main page

For Plasma Mobile, however, we needed not only a simple clock display but also an alarm clock that could schedule proper system wake ups. Additionally, for travelers a world clock would be nice, and why not have a simple timer and stopwatch as well. That’s KClock, a sexy little Kirigami-based clock app.

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