Review Request 127393: digital-clock: Fix font size of date label in small panels

Daniel Faust hessijames at mailbox.org
Sat Apr 9 11:12:22 BST 2016



> On März 21, 2016, 4:08 nachm., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > Thanks!
> 
> Daniel Faust wrote:
>     I already started to rewrite the clock applet. I got pretty far actually, and this issue arose again.
>     I think it was always intended to use the default font size in narrow panels, but since font.pointSize and font.pixelSize were both set,
>     setting pointSize to the default font size never worked.
>     
>     So now my tendecy is to use the default font size and post my changes once I'm done.

Now that Plasma 5.6 has arrived in opensuse Tumbleweed, I was finally able to finish my re-write. It uses the default font size for all labels in narrow panels.
I'm pretty sure that was always the intended way plus I think it looks better than using a scaled font.


- Daniel


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On März 19, 2016, 2:16 nachm., Daniel Faust wrote:
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> (Updated März 19, 2016, 2:16 nachm.)
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> Review request for kde-workspace.
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> Bugs: 360059
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360059
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Currently the digital clock applet uses a fixed font size for the date label when it's placed in a narrow horizontal panel.
> Example: http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/f8ba5d0d
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> With this patch the same font size is used as for the time label.
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> As mentioned at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127102/ I'm not sure if the current design is a bug or intentional.
> On the one hand having a smaller font size reduces the width of the applet, on the other hand having the same font size is more consistent.
> I would prefer a consistent look however.
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> This patch creates one problem though. Currently the height of the date-time-separator is set to the height of the (fixed) date label font size.
> With this patch I set the separator height to 70% of the applet height.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml 02d55a9 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127393/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Daniel Faust
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