Review of "Retro LCD 7-Segment Clock" version 66

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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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v66 changelog This release is about making the shadows and glow effects behave more predictably and consistently, across the real clock, the preferences preview, and at every font size. Display and shadows now scale together with font size. The container's padding used to be a fixed number of pixels regardless of clock size, so at small font sizes the display looked oddly roomy, and at large ones it looked cramped. Padding now scales proportionally with the configured font size (with sensible min/max limits so it never touches the digits or grows absurdly large). The digit shadow and the alarm dot's shadow now scale the same way, so a small clock has proportionally smaller shadows and a large one has proportionally bigger ones — the whole thing stays visually balanced at any size. Shadows can no longer visually escape the display. As an extra safety net on top of the scaling above, the display container now clips its own content to its bounds, so even in an edge case the math doesn't perfectly predict, nothing renders outside the rounded display box. Unified the shadow logic for digits and the alarm dot. They used to use separate formulas that could drift out of sync (different color opacity, different offset behavior). They now share the exact same underlying calculation, so moving the glow slider affects both at the same rate and in the same rhythm, and they use identical shadow color. Narrower, finer-grained glow ranges. Retro LCD's shadow-intensity range went from 0–10 to 0–5, and the color themes' glow range went from 0–20 to 0–10. Combined with a smoother linear offset formula (previously it only changed every couple of steps), this gives noticeably more precise control as you approach the display's edge. Preferences preview now matches the real clock more closely. It previously showed no shadow at all for the digits or the alarm dot; now both render with the same shadow logic used in the real clock. It also now shows the alarm dot's soft glow halo for the color themes, not just Retro LCD, which it was missing before. No new dependencies, permissions, or GSettings keys. Gracias for your time and pattient :)
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