One more thing that was completely satisfactory before that I can't tolerate now.

Just upgraded everything.

I don't really understand the version numbering system, but various parts went from 5.23.0 to 5.26.0, from 5.7.5 to 5.8.3, and from 16.04.3 to 16.08.3.

The first thing I noticed after I logged in was that the digital clock in the panel now has a microscopically small font - it was virtually the entire vertical size of the (on the bottom) panel before, but now it only takes up about a third of the panel, and there is a lot of empty (wasted) space. Is there some way of restoring the old font size (without changing the font size in any other location?

Bonus question - a couple of updates ago, I notice that the clock display no longer has the leading zero (all I want is the time in a simple time in hh:mm:ss format - WITH a leading zero if necessary). This is doubly annoying because twice a day I see the width of everything else in the panel charge size to accommodate the change in the amount of horizontal space required to display the time. Is there some way of getting the old behavior (a leading zero) back, as well?

I solved my clock problems with the 'My Digital Clock': viewtopic.php?f=17&t=134970&p=361132#p361132

Okay, that solved the second problem (and sorry I didn't see your reply before). Thanks.

I just added a one line patch to plasma-workspace-5.8.3.tar.xz:

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--- plasma-workspace-5.8.3/applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml  2016-11-01 12:23:51.000000000 +0000
+++ plasma-workspace-5.8.3/applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml  2017-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
         var regexp = /(hh*)(.+)(mm)/i
         var match = regexp.exec(timeFormatString);
 
-        var hours = match[1];
+        var hours = "hh";
         var delimiter = match[2];
         var minutes = match[3]
         var seconds = "ss";


Still not clear to me how to increase the font size.

The bugs are fixed and the code is optimized. Sometimes this will brake some desktops. You could check the bug reports and fill new ones if needed: https://bugs.kde.org

Latest review is: [Digital Clock] Bug fixes and ui code optimization - https://phabricator.kde.org/D3630

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Summary

This patch is meant to improve the Digital Clock applet in the following ways:...

About the font size

With the plasma 5.8.(5) the digital clock font size can be changed from the DigitalClock.qml. With the horizontal panel (name: "horizontalPanel") the targets are timeLabel & dateLabel height.

In this example 'hard coding' the height to 12:


Full image: http://imgur.com/o40Ldzo