| Summary: | Calculator: allow editing the input | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Dan Dascalescu <ddascalescu+kde> |
| Component: | Calculator widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | nate, plasma-bugs-null |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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| Attachments: | Calculator misleading cursor | ||
> I had to install GNOME calculator, along with a few hundred megs of flatpak
> dependencies, in order to simply be able to edit the formula I had typed in the
> calculator.
I recommend using krunner for simple calculations, or kcalc for advanced calculations.
KCalc still doesn't allow editing the input. KRunner does, but it's not a "real" window, and goes away if I switch focus to another application to copy input from there or inspect something else. > KCalc still doesn't allow editing the input.
Oops, sorry.
How about qalculate-gtk? It requires libqalculate and gtk3, and these 2 packages are probably installed - KDE requires libqalculate, and chromium, audacity, etc. requires gtk3.
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Created attachment 137619 [details] Calculator misleading cursor The "Calculator" Plasma widget doesn't allow editing the input, despite the hover mouse cursor being the shape of an insertion point. I think strict skeumorphism doesn't help at all here. This software runs on a computer, not a physical calculator. It's fine to simulate the interface, but to forbid features a computer allows, like placing the cursor arbitrarily in the input, I find to be counter-productive. I had to install GNOME calculator, along with a few hundred megs of flatpak dependencies, in order to simply be able to edit the formula I had typed in the calculator. (Not sure where to file this - the process name is "plasmawindowed" but I don't see a "Calculator" component in this "plasmashell" product.)