clocks in mc

Miguel de Icaza miguel at ximian.com
Sun Sep 9 03:58:53 UTC 2001


> > 6) clocks in right up corner. If using on Linux, clocks update only if key 
> > pressed (may be need to change something in getch_with_delay() ?)
> 
> I do not quite like this feature. It makes mc do "something" even when
> it is idle. If you want clock, well, put them into kernel or run X and
> use them as applet. This is filemanager, not clock-showing program.

This also gets bad when you are working over a dialup line.  Too much
latency.

Sure, it can be turned off, but if you ever turn it on, and you happen
to login remotely to your machine, you will just suffer for having the
feature on.




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