[kde-guidelines] Date/Time picker (Was: Grunt work)

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 04 July 2013 13:22:27 Heiko Tietze wrote:

> > I'd suggest to replace the first two guidelines with the following:
> > ...
> > Does that distinction make sense to you?
> 
> I added it to the text for now, it's better than nothing.
> 
> Personally, I don't like KDateWidget and KDateTimeWidget - too much controls
> (isn't it annoying to click through the whole line to get a certain date?)
> and no advantage over comboboxes. The resulting options are combo or grid,
> and the decision between depends on browsing vs. knowing and space.

Hmm... I wouldn't want to enter my date of birth using a date picker, because 
it would be more clicks. On the other hand, that's probably done the fastest 
way by directly typing it into a format-checking line-edit (since you choose 
the date format in the system settings, you don't have the typical problem 
websites face with different formats).
Maybe KDate(Time)Widget are indeed antiquated and should be deprecated.

Does anyone know a usecase where these offer an advantage over combo boxes?

> BTW, what happens when the combo box is dropped down? Does the picker shows
> up?

Yes it does.

> And for future improvements: there could be a widget designed that provides
> time picking, perhaps in terms of an analog watch.

Those things look nice and are nice for touch screens (when done well), but I 
don't really see an advantage over a combobox for desktop systems.