[Panel-devel] Fuzzy-clock

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On Thu November 1 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2007, Beat Wolf wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 November 2007 15.39:28 Chris Howells wrote:
> > > Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > i'd like to see the clocks separated from each other based on
> > > > functionality target so we avoid a remake of the kde3 clock applet ;)
> > >
> > > What I'm currently really missing from the KDE 3 clock applet is the
> > > calendar that appears when you click on it, allowing you to easily
> > > browse different months or even years. I referred to this on a pretty
> > > regular basis in KDE 3.
> >
> > And i just would like to add as a non developer, the most important thing
> > was the text box with the date. I use it daily to copy paste it into all
> > sorts of documents
>
> with my non developer hat on, the most important thing is that the calendar
> would actually show me my appointments from my calendar ;)
>
> interesting how priorities are different based on the person. but yeah, i
> think we can do all of this and then some.
>
> > > Would you want to see a calendar as a separate plasmoid, or is it
> > > sensible to add this function to the clocks (though this may be nasty
> > > if there is a few of them...)?
>
> i think the real solution here is not to have a calendar widget that each
> clock pops up but have some sort of service that they can request from
> plasma which gets fulfilled with .... a plasmoid.
>
> i've been pondering just how to accomplish this for a while ...

Well heck, it doesn't have to be a plasmoid, that could be a 
little "interesting" to accomplish properly. I like the fact that the current 
pop up is a tool window.. Of course it depends if a plasmoid can be made to 
work, without disrupting your current plasma layout..

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at strangesoft.net