Suggest elapsed time functionality

Bug #700510 reported by Simon Tite
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Timer Applet
In Progress
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Request for enhancement - this timer would be additionally useful if it could count upwards, i.e., start at zero, count elapsed time, allowing pauses.

Use case: Working on, say, three hourly paid jobs, could have three timers running, two paused, one counting up the seconds on the current job. Useful aid for billing, timesheet records, etc.

If this is not the right place to request enhancements, then please forgive me, and direct me to the appropriate place.

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Louis W. Adams, Jr. (lou) wrote :

Yes, I'd like that too! It would be very handy for keeping track of volunteer work time I do on my PC.

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Kenny Meyer (knny-myer) wrote :

OK, I already started this, and this will take me another night to have this finished.

Thanks, for reporting this issue!

Changed in timer-applet:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → 2.2.0
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Evangelos Petsos (varx3d) wrote :

Hello there,
I would like to ask something specific, like disabling the status icon progress of the elapsed time (the numerical progress is already implemented), in order to let you work without being able to notice at all how much time passed/remains, to reduce stress that can caused by that.It's a psychological factor only, but I would highly appreciate it, along with the functionality of running automatically the next timer, once the previous one reached zero.
Thank you very much

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Kenny Meyer (knny-myer) wrote : Re: [Bug 700510] Re: Suggest elapsed time functionality

I am very,very busy in real life ATM. I already started it, but it still
needs work.

Anyway, it's nice you want this feature, so I will to work on this on the
weekend.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Evangelos Petsos
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello there,
> I would like to ask something specific, like disabling the status icon
> progress of the elapsed time (the numerical progress is already
> implemented), in order to let you work without being able to notice at all
> how much time passed/remains, to reduce stress that can caused by that.It's
> a psychological factor only, but I would highly appreciate it, along with
> the functionality of running automatically the next timer, once the previous
> one reached zero.
> Thank you very much
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to Timer
> Applet.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/700510
>
> Title:
> Suggest elapsed time functionality
>
> Status in Timer Applet:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Request for enhancement - this timer would be additionally useful if
> it could count upwards, i.e., start at zero, count elapsed time,
> allowing pauses.
>
> Use case: Working on, say, three hourly paid jobs, could have three
> timers running, two paused, one counting up the seconds on the current
> job. Useful aid for billing, timesheet records, etc.
>
> If this is not the right place to request enhancements, then please
> forgive me, and direct me to the appropriate place.
>
>
>

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Carnë Draug (carandraug) wrote :

I also think a "stopwatch" functionality to the timer would be great. It's good to know you're already working on it. Thank you very much

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