Review Request: Keep clickmessage text visible when empty and focused

[Aurélien Gâteau]

> On Dec. 12, 2012, 6:43 p.m., Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > It did not get a ship it back then for the plasma components, but I would not like to block the rediscussion, just saying what happened earlier. :-)
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> > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104895/
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     One of the key arguments people had then was because it would have led to seriously inconsistent behaviour between plasma components and the desktop. 
>     
>     Aurelien is fixing that by also proposing to patch KDE libs, which turns my personal opinion from a definite "no" to something I'm happy with.
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> Laszlo Papp wrote:
>     At least, I do not see such a key argument personally in the previous review comments. As for me, it seems that certain people would prefer one way, and certain people would prefer the other way. So, it is a hard decision to take in my opinion. Certain projects do this way, and certain do not.
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>     It will stay inconsistent with the QLineEdit based applications for instance (I know one could bring different examples, too). I am not envy for the decision maker. :-)

I see more and more interfaces switching to keeping the placeholder when the widget is focused. This behavior can now be found in:
- Firefox awesome bar
- Android input fields
- Facebook search and input fields
- Twitter login form (with a nice twist: opacity of placeholder reduces when focused)
- Deezer search field
- Google+ input field
- Wikipedia search field
- forum.kde.org search field

For the record, I also plan to file a patch against Qt to change the behavior of QLineEdit.


- Aurélien


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On Dec. 12, 2012, 5:10 p.m., Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 12, 2012, 5:10 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs.
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> Description
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> This patch changes the way KLineEdit and KTextEdit handle the clickMessage property. The message remains visible when the widget is focused, as long as no text has been typed in. This is useful when the widget is focused by default, and also gives another opportunity to the user to read the message before typing, removing the need for workarounds  like clicking in another text entry to bring back the clickMessage.
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> I filed a similar review-request for Plasma components: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107600/
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> Diffs
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>   kdeui/widgets/klineedit.cpp d96c1c4 
>   kdeui/widgets/ktextedit.cpp dfaf5b8 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107678/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested KLineEdit in Dolphin "add place" dialog and KDevelop. Tested KTextEdit with Gwenview "description" image field.
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> Thanks,
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> Aurélien Gâteau
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