KDatePicker improvements

[Jakob Petsovits]

On Thursday, 22. November 2007, Hans Meine wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2007 14:24:35 schrieb Torsten Rahn:
> > By far most people won't look for the "Week number" but just want to know
> >
> > Year, month, day.
> >
> > So "Week" shouldn't have the same Importance and prominence as other
> > items.
>
> Right.
>
> Also, it stands out quite much depending on the UI style - maybe it should
> be more like the month display, which is functionally a combobox, but only
> appears after clicking.  In contrast to that, the week is a regular
> combobox.

Good point... I'll think some more about that.
I believe this is because there are a lot more weeks in there, as opposed to 
only twelve months which have no problem to fit on the screen.

Also, I'll ask the usability list about the "<- month -> <- year ->" approach 
as it seems this is still better than the current one and doable with minimal 
code changes. Let's consider the current patch stalled for now.

> (Maybe it should even be more like the year, where you would just 
> enter a number?  Or even add spinbox controls to that lineedit, also for
> year then?)

That was actually my first attempt - I had a much easier patch working which 
had the year widget as a spinbox, but the conclusion was that it's not ideal 
because horizontal month navigation (left/right) doesn't make a good fit for 
vertical year navigation (up/down).

The bugfixes have been applied - expect me to come back soon with the rest of 
the pending items. For completeness, here's the updated patch that only 
includes the functional changes and leaves out the fixes.

Wishes,
  Jakob
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