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	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	claudius.ellsel, kde.podagric, nate, popov895
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.19.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423155
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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.