Allow moving the clock from the center
I'm filing this here because an issue asking for this has been filed a year ago with a fair bit of support and justification but not gaining any kind of traction from the developers involved or any help about how to move it forward. Quoting the original issue:
The clock is currently fixed to the center of the screen. On wide-screen monitors, and especially on ultrawide monitors geared at productivity, this poses two problems:
- Notifications are grouped on the right, so when the user wants to check the clock and notification, they have to look in two places
- Since the content on the top line is pretty much limited to the clock and notifications, 90%+ of it is wasted
In addition, there's
- On the vast majority of other OSes and DEs, the clock and notifications are groped together. This makes it harder to transition to GNOME.
Supporting evidence for the need to move the clock from the middle:
Proposed Mockups:
See GNOME/gnome-shell#931 (closed) for additional context.