Can't I Just Find it, or Does Linux Mint Cinammon not Have a Clock/Timer/Stopwatch App?

[gamagos]

I came to linux mint from windows
and was used to using the windows timer app for managing my time usage.

But then when I tried to find the timer/stopwatch app (all timer apps bundle all this functionality in one thing obviously),
I just could not find it.

Does the Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop really not have it's own timer app?
I mean it has all the other basic stuff, calculator, media player, calender etc. (no camera app though as well).
But no sign of your basic clock app.

I mean that seems like a pretty easy thing to add,
might even do it myself (maybe).

Or am I just stupid and unable to find it or is there some obscure reason,
that it does not have one.

[billyswong]

From what I found, Windows started getting built-in timer/stopwatch app at Win 8. So it is less "basic" than other functions.

You may give gnome-clocks a try. By the name of it, it is obviously developed for GNOME desktop. Quite a few Linux Mint Cinnamon preinstalled software are from GNOME too. So you may or may not find it fit in well. But according to people who wrote review in Software Manager, that clock software also got its own issue too. Check it out in Software Manager, and try it yourself.

[gamagos]

I mean the gnome clock still looks pretty good, it's not perfect, but I still think a modern OS should include a clock app by default

[billyswong]

Recently Linux Mint devs created their own calendar app. https://github.com/xapp-project/clockenstein
This new calendar app will replace gnome-calendar starting from Mint 23.
Let see if we can convince Linux Mint to create a replacement for gnome-clocks

Personally I use the timer/alarm in my phone, and weren't aware the lack of equivalent software in Linux Mint until you point it out 😅️

[billyswong]

Your wish comes true in Mint 27! https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5086

The screenshot doesn't seem to contain stopwatch functions. You may need to ask in the blog comment there.

[gamagos]

Hurray