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Sometimes, a simple count-up timer is what you need when you want to train for
presentations or when you just want to informally monitor the time of a
process.

The original KDE4 Plasma addon Timer is just a count-down timer. It doesn't work as a
count-up timer. This patch intend to extend the Timer applet to a count-up
timer. What is missing so, thinking about a complete chronometer, is the lap
functionality. But that would be developed later.

What the patch does:
The 00:00:00 time is added as default, even if the user remove it, the applet
will add it again. So the option 00:00:00 will always exists.

By setting timer to 00:00:00, this will inform the applet to start from
00:00:00 and go on counting up to "infinite".

For the future:
As the future is the KDE5 and I don't know what will be the demand for the lap
functionality. So, I will remain this applet this way for a time to see what
will happens with KDE, mainly on Slackware Linux. If the Slackware adopt KDE5,
as there is a Kronometer, probably I will no longer maintain this patch. But
for now, this will help us to save some time.


Thank you for the visit.
If you have any questions / suggestions / criticisms, let me know by email. 


ENVIRONMENT:
Slackware Linux Current 5.4.31
GLib version: 1.2.10
Qt: 4.8.7
KDE development platform: 4.14.38
Shell of the Plasma Desktop: 4.11.22