Review of "Retro LCD 7-Segment Clock" version 65

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Vintage digital display with a high-fidelity 7-segment font. 10 color themes, custom colors, ghost segments, CRT scanlines, desktop widget mode, a quick color-switch menu, and integrated alarms with an on-screen dialog so they're never missed. Reads its own bundled font and alarm sound files, and copies the bundled font into ~/.local/share/fonts on first opening preferences so the live preview renders correctly; no other file access.

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https://gitlab.com/corral1976/gnome-shell-extension-relojlcd

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v65 changelog This release reverts the alarm indicator back to the colored dot design from v63, instead of the bell icon introduced in v64. During testing across different GNOME Shell versions, the bell icon (notification-symbolic) didn't render consistently — on some setups it showed up as a broken/generic icon instead of an actual bell. Since icon availability depends on the system's icon theme, which varies across GNOME versions and distros, it wasn't something we could reliably guarantee. The dot doesn't have that problem: it's drawn entirely by the extension itself, so it looks the same everywhere. The "Test Alarm Sound" button in preferences is now a proper Play/Stop toggle. Previously, clicking it multiple times in a row would stack overlapping sound playbacks. Now, pressing Play starts the sound and the button switches to Stop; pressing it again cancels playback immediately and switches back to Play. It also resets automatically once the sound finishes on its own. Everything else from v64 stays: accessibility support for the clock and alarm indicator, the larger "Current Date" display in preferences, and the shadow calculation that's computed once instead of twice per style update. One new GSettings key (test-alarm-stop-counter), used purely as an internal trigger for the stop button. No other new dependencies or permissions. Gracias :)
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