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Hi,

I have an idea about having a timer on the taskbar for applications. Basically the timer tells you how long a window has been active. Heres a mockup:



The mockup says that I've been using that terminal window for 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

You could enable it by right clicking on the taskbar entry, then going to Advanced then something like 'Start Timer'.

Having something like a taskbar timer would help me to see how long I've been coding etc.

what the use case for this?

One use case could be that someone wants to take a break from the computer every 30 minutes so that would help him/her keep track of the time.(Though maybe a different program would be better suited because presumably the user would be using more than a single window)

Or perhaps a Jack wants to make sure that Timmy does his homework for at least 30 minutes. This means that the window for doing the homework should be active for 30 minutes after a half an hour or Jack can tell that Timmy has been playing games .

Or it could be used in usability testing where it will tell the testers how long the subjects use a certain application in a typical day.

The first use case should probably be handled by something like krsibreak. The second should also probably be handled by a standalone program. And the third should probably be tracked silently if the user agrees to it. I am not sure how having this in the taskbar really helps any of these. Especially since in all three of the use cases the user may open and close the program at some point, which would render this useless anyway.