Review Request 118357: Disable the agenda part of the calendar

[Martin Klapetek]

> On June 12, 2014, 12:25 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > I seem to have missed this change.
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> > The rationale behind this change is that there is no PIM support and therefore we should remove it. I'm sure you guys would have thought about the following points, but since the discussion happened on IRC I cannot go through it.
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> > 1. The Agenda part still provides valuable feedback such as the current date + day
> > 2. What about if someone doesn't have any accounts enabled in KDE PIM? Do we plan to toggle it on and off based on runtime detection?
> > 3. We clearly want the agenda in the future. Why break visual consistency among releases, specially since the work is done.
> > 4. From a promo point of view, we have been showcasing our calendar widget a LOT. It was the only thing that was shown during FOSDEM. Do we want to change that?

Hey,

thanks for that. I remember we also talked about disabling this part back in January in case the pim backend would not be ready, but to your questions:

1. The only thing it provided over the calendar side was the full day name, which itself is not enough to keep the whole popup twice as big as needed.
2. Possibly. Subject to discussion though.
3. I don't believe that in this case the "visual consistency among releases" tops the "it's (visually) bloated for no reason". Also the visual consistency of the calendar will remain in the future, it will just be extended. Limiting ourselves to the very first visuals released in the first release would be quite...limiting :) Plus we might also need to change the agenda part in the future a bit, it wasn't really tested with real agenda data afaik (and so the visual consistency might break anyway). And finally, it may take several releases of Plasma before there's a usable backend. Having that big calendar popup with half of it being pretty much just a whitespace for so long would be just annoying.
4. Indeed, as it was the very first moreless complete applet of Plasma Next. Just now we also have good NM applet and battery applet with new icons worth showing


- Martin


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On June 2, 2014, 2:44 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated June 2, 2014, 2:44 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> As agreed on irc (someday ago), the agenda part is useless until there's a proper agenda backend and should just be hidden. Here's a patch simply hiding the left part - it's easier to do just "visible: false" than comment it out and then comment out/remove all the lines referencing parts of the agenda, also cleaner.
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> I added a big comment at the file beginning, I'll fill the commit sha after committing so it can be easily reverted (the comment will be separate commit).
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> Screenshot attached.
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> Oh and you might want to remove the clock from panel and readd it/remove plasma config as the popup size seems to be saved and so after this patch you may still get the original-sized half-empty dialog.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/CalendarView.qml 43812a4 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118357/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> Calendar without agenda
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/05/27/84880c21-1367-4d48-88db-7747553c40f5__plasma_cal1.png
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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