The Time Shifts Around as the Digits Change

[jmain33]

It is not a major issue since the many fonts options can be used to avoid it; but, the time display bounces around left-to-right as the digits change (most obviously when seconds are displayed). There are several fonts that avoid this intrinsically, but it would be nicer if the horizontal shifting were avoided regardless of what font is used. [Different placements and alignments don't affect the fact that the time will shift a bit.]

Bonjourr - version: 1.18.4.1
Chrome - version: 121.0.6167.86

[victrme]

Hi @jmain33 !

It has been bothering me for some time as well. The issue is quite tricky to fix though.

Since the clock is centered and each character have a different width, when a bigger character appears, it pushes the clock to the left. The challenge would be to left-align the clock and determine the perfect width for it to appear centered. It also need to work for every font size and family.

It is definitely doable, and might even be fixed for the next update !

[jmain33]

Thanks for considering this refinement, Victrme. I don't know how much of a headache it would be to improve the coding. I enjoy the Bonjourr extension and find it to be reliable; so don't rack your brain over this, it isn't a big problem.

[victrme]

It won't be in this update because it might introduce some breaking changes and I want it to be as smooth as possible. I think it is especially important because it's a small annoyance. This is what separate the good from the best 🤠🤠🤠