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

[Casper Clemence]

After observing a few non-techie people use my laptop I have noticed
that they tend to panic slightly when the calendar pop-up doesn't
disappear automatically.  Waggling the mouse about while they work out
where they need to click seems to be the usual response.

It would nice at least to give some visual hint of what you need to do
to close the pop-up.

I also find having to click on the clock again to minimise it
unintuitive, but it's a very small niggle. Generally I bring up the
calendar to get one piece of information then I want it to go away.
However I understand the reason for the behaviour: That someone may
wish to refer back to it a few times while performing a task.

It would be great if it could somehow elegantly support both usage
patterns. Some sort of button that could be pressed that clearly meant
"don't disappear"... hmmm




2009/3/24 Rob Scheepmaker <r.scheepmaker at student.utwente.nl>:
> 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.
>
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