Display "Next break" information as countdown instead of time?

[badrihippo]

This is related to the suggestion in #16. Instead of showing the "next break" information as a fixed time ("Next break at 12:07 PM"), it would be helpful if I could see it as a countdown ("Next break in 7m" or "Next break in 45s"). This would help me quickly estimate how much time I have left, instead of having to look at the clock and calculate.

Constantly calculating the break time might be a performance issue, as mentioned in #76, but perhaps you could calculate the time just once while the menu is displayed (or better still, keep updating but only when the menu is visible)? It could be a separate plugin or toggleable feature in the settings.

[ranska]

It would be very nice (like workrave do before) that we can see this count down on the tray pane. Or maybe there is a way to catch this information. I would like to implement a tmux plugin that show countdown it tmux status bar. Where should I start to do that ? Which safeEyes can help for that ? Thanks.

[badrihippo]

Not sure how to implement it, but there are problems with displaying the countdowns on the tray pane, as mentioned in #76. Basically, we'd have to keep polling the countdown script which would cause unnecessary background load/processing.

Displaying it on the menu circumvents this, because it only has to poll it once, when the user clicks on the menu for the first time.

[kael-shipman]

Just adding some cents here as a regular user of safeeyes. I appreciate the feature request, but I much prefer to save on the resource usage and am quite content with just seeing the "next break time" when I click the icon.

Perhaps a good middle-ground solution to this would be to implement it as a plugin that polls once per minute and updates the tray icon or something. That way you could opt in and manage that functionality from the plugins menu.