[reopened] Display Current Date on home screen / status area / peeking

I agree, allowing user to choose would be by far more useful

in fact, we would want users to be able to customize everything on every screen. a few options for customization exist already and one more is coming soon (customizing the pulley menu!). making the lock screen completely customizable has been dismissed by Jolla as not feasable, meaning I don't think they will do anything to start it in the forseeable future.

Here it is, thanks! But still not in the status area, so, not peekable from apps...

Ok, one half of the request is done, we have it on the lock screen in 1.0.7 Saapunki! Now to tackle the "peekability" :-D

I find where the date displays on the lockscreen is not optimal. The date displays but then changes to the Mobile operator name. It would be far better to have the date display just above the time at the bottom of the lockscreen as was shown in the screen capture above.

Update #7 in 6/2014 have only 1,5 sec dynamic show date swapped with operator name. Not visible via app quick-side-peek. this is not solution. For this reason i was create own solution - Date in Clock region on LockScreen. Visible via quick-peek from app also. :)

@ssahla I did it.. :)

Thanks, looks very good. This is the first unofficial hack that I might risk putting in my system. How is it possible though to modify the UI like that? I thought it was a closed component??? In this case, someone MUST IMMEDIATELY change the color of fonts for sent text in the messaging app. That is so bumming my out...

So, how would I go about putting this change into my system? Does it require patch manager? If I read the screen shots correctly, for those 1,5 seconds we have the date showing in two locations on the lock screen (top&bottom), yes? In that case, will you try to make a version where the top one never shows?

@bennypr0fane For stop dynamic show date in top, we need patch file Lockscreen.qml back to old state before update. It is possible. I did it in minimalistic simply way. :)

This! Exactly what I wanted! Thank you!

very cool, this should be the official implementation. i'll try it when i get home. thanks for the effort!

@szobi, sometimes i check the current date at least couple times per day and for me it'll be bit more easier to have the date directly on lock screen, without using pull menu as now. Yes, perhaps for other people that is extra boring information. Thus even better to have customizable info for lock screen

There is lots of empty space between lock screen and application screen under the current time for a small row that would say what date it is. The same information that is now in lock screen's pulley menu --> move or duplicate it under the time --> current date & time becomes always available with a simple peek from any app.

I did it ..

Better is put date with time together.

This region is visible on static LockScreen. And it is visible via quick-side-peak from from apps. I did it. Link to modified clock.qml file is in one of answers here. :)

No way to hardcode use some iso format. Visible text always must follow format from regional settings. There is definition for full, long, medium and short date format.

you should open a new feature request, it would be more clean abd easier ti spot.

https://together.jolla.com/question/16027/classic-old-style-clock-option-for-lockscreen/

You're right, I've just recognized it. It's a bit inconsistent, I would expect the date near the clock. And if you're on the multitasking screen, you need to scroll the whole lock screen up until you can reach the pully-menu. I vote for having the date near the time.

Indeed that is the wrongest place the date could be "hiding". The pully-menu is meant for selecting actions not for hiding informations from user.

Why do I need an action for something that should be simply there? The phone should support me and not I the phone and it's lean design ;-)

@hardcodes.de You are right. My answer was only to show where you can find it today. I agree that the pulley menu is not the best location for the current date. Maybe I should edit my answer.

OMG, THERE IT IS! I actually never noticed this in half a year of using this phone now! I've been opening the calendar all this time! And I know why, this is so tiny and inconspicuous, smaller font and in darker color than other items, it barely stands out from the background. You can call that well hidden. So please get that piece of info out in the open, put on on the lockscreen!