MajortomVR / simple-timer-extension

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Suggestion : be able to enter "1h" or "1h15m" etc #4

Closed fabd closed 1 year ago

fabd commented 1 year ago

I was desperate to find an equivalent to Horo which I used on my last Mac Mini - and this works well!

Surprising how difficult it is to find a simple app to do a timer. I was really looking for just a timer, visible in the top panel, easy to start. And this is what I was looking for :)

One thing that I liked on Horo is you could use this notation to set the time, I think this would be a neat feature:

15m for 15 minutes - instead of typing 15:00

It gets more useful if you want 1h instead of typing 1:00:00

Now Horo had a weird limitation in that I had to type 1h 15mwith a space, oddly enough I don't know why it required the space, so that would be a potential issue to look for - being able to enter either 1h 15m or 1h15m.

One thing Horo did as well, though I find it less intuitive, is you can also do 90m which is the same as 1h30m

The way I use your app is once I click the icon I just press TAB 4 times to quickly get to the input box, then I enter eg. 30:00then press Enter.

In that regard, wOuld it make sense also to have the input automatically focused? This could be even quicker to input - and potentially for keeping the tab order intuitive, move the controls below the input, that way if you tab one more, you get to the buttons?

Cheers

fabd commented 1 year ago

PS: I'd love to contribute unfortunately I have no experience at all programming with the linux / gnome APIs. All I could to is a terrible hack of the javascript.

fabd commented 1 year ago

Awesome update! thanks! :+1:

MajortomVR commented 1 year ago

Glad you liked the update! Thanks for the feedback!