Bug 399711

Summary: Option to automatically show and hide the date based on available height
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component: Digital Clock widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: claudius.ellsel, kde.podagric, nate, niccolo, popov895
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.19.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423155
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Attachments: Setting to always show the date

Description Gregor Mi 2018-10-12 12:32:20 UTC 
Currently, by default the date of the Digital Clock plasmoid is not shown, see for example here:

- http://www.ocsmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/plasma-5-13-desktop-620x349.png

If users increase the panel height, they normally will also want to enable the date display, see here (ignore the screenshot annotations):

- https://i.stack.imgur.com/v5C3x.png
- https://i.stack.imgur.com/0qFgm.png
- https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&rais=1&oiu=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FPUW33XSKjik%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&sp=aa056fc63e33fc935e80a3f8b3ead85e

It would be nice if the date would automatically be displayed once the height of the widget reaches a certain threshold.
Comment 1 Claudius Ellsel 2020-06-10 21:26:18 UTC 
Nice suggestion! I thought about even almost always adding the date info, like on Windows.
Comment 2 popov895 2020-06-11 12:35:16 UTC 
In this case, there should be an option “Always show the date”, which will allow me to display the date, even if the panel height is less than that threshold.
Comment 3 Claudius Ellsel 2020-06-17 16:31:59 UTC 
Created attachment 129458 [details]
Setting to always show the date

There already is an option to always show the date. See the attached screenshot.
Comment 4 popov895 2020-06-17 17:11:24 UTC 
I believe there will be three options:
* never show
* always show
* show if possible
Comment 5 Claudius Ellsel 2020-06-17 17:35:36 UTC 
Ah, I misunderstood you then.

Also for reference, since this is basically suggesting the same:
https://phabricator.kde.org/D27845#622169

The default value to always display the date can be changed here: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/applets/digital-clock/package/contents/config/main.xml#L19

I suggest as a first measure to change that to be on by default. In a followup that could get expanded to allow automatic fitting as well.
Comment 6 Claudius Ellsel 2020-06-18 13:22:57 UTC 
I created https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423155 now to be able to treat both solutions separately.
Comment 7 Niccolò Venerandi 2025-10-26 15:04:33 UTC 
This is not exactly implemented, but there's something very close to it: when the date is shown, its position is based on the panel thickness, instead of its visibility. This way, the date will be shown along the time on thin panels instead of disappearing entirely. I think that's better and it makes an extra option to auto-disable the date unnecessary.