It it feels like a veritable age since I last wrote about anything related to Screenlets, the cute n’ quirky desktop ‘widget’ framework for Linux, it’s because it has been.
As a kind of apology to any ardent Screenlets fans who read regularly, I came across a cracking ‘flip clock’ style theme for the stock clock screenlet that’s preinstalled and knew I had to share it.
Nice, isn’t it?
Better yet, FlipTime (for that is the themes actual name) is fully resizeable with no scaling issues (that I noticed) thanks to being SVG based, rather than a raster format like PNG.
In the following screenshot, you can see how crisp and clear the widget is at 100%, 200% and 300% scaling. Legibility is kinda important for a desktop decoration that doubles up as a clock, right?!
The dev behind it says it has “full support for clocks in png format with different size, more customization possibilities like show time or date as text and without the clock hands, the alarm can play a beep or run a command as root like disconnect dialup connections (poff) or shutdown pc.”
If you think this could add some class to your desktop, go download it from GNOME Look at the link below. It comes as a DEB and will replace the standard clock screenlet with an ‘improved’ version.
If you’d rather it didn’t do that, download the DEB but extracts the contents and move the ‘fliptime’ theme folder to the relevant location on your file system.
Download @ gnome-look.org