You’ve come up with a quite bunch of alternatives. Maybe one thing to still point out is that the status bar can have even more items than shown on these examples.
Currently on the left there can be: battery, profile indicator, do not disturb mode, alarm.
On the right: location status, vpn, bluetooth, network connection status, flight mode, sim2 connectivity.
On worst case nearly all the items can be shown at the same time and the lists might still expand.
Any reshuffling on the order should still work on devices without a notch and the two groups with more local and connectivity settings is nice to have.
Yea, I don’t like the current clock too much but this is a tricky puzzle. Involving also volume change UI and notification banner. Having some plans for those, and once done, I’m also thinking of just making the clock bigger and detach it from the status bar.
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Hm, if the objective is to wrap a clock around a circular shape, the possibility to swap to an analogue variant comes to my mind, where clockhands run along the edge of the cutout. But I don’t have the means currently to present a sketch
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Fun idea and this could lead to interesting clock hand designs, but wouldn’t the top of the screen cut off the clock hands near 12:00 and 24:00?
There’s “Parking Meter” or “Gauge” style analog watch designs which could be used - but of course look a bit weird.
But thinking along the lines of a gauge - if the notch area was designed to show a gauge, that could then show different things. Moon Phase, charging status, some weather parameters, download percentage, some system parameters like mem/cpu/…
The ‘clockItem’ item in the Lipstick StatusArea already has a Loader to switch between clock display and lock icon.
If that Loader was configurable (e.g. read the path to a QML file from dconf), we would have a plugin system for that area and people could do all kinds of things.
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Super cool implementation wao!
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