Clock/Calendar bug (was Plasma::PopupApplet API change proposal)

[Rob Scheepmaker]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 14:24:25 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote:
> > as possible. The calendar only opens when the user wants to, in which
> > case passive popup isn't necessary at all.
>
> think about when and why the user opens the calendar: to check dates. often
> this is to coordinate something going on somewhere else, often on the same
> computer. when you are writing an email or checking a website or whatever,
> it's beyond annoying to not have a calendar that will just sit there.

Hmm, makes sense. I didn't think of it that way. I personally dislike not 
being able to close the calendar just by clicking anywhere else, since I 
usually just remember the information I looked up and that way I don't have to 
aim for the clock again to close it, but I understand why passive popup has 
it's merits in case of the clock. 
Problem: we can't just give passive popups keyboard focus, because one of the 
reasons for passive popups in the first place, was that they don't steal 
keyboard focus. For the calendar we can just give it keyboard focus whenever 
we open it, but I'd rather see some more general solution.