| 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: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | nate, niccolo, plasma-bugs-null |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| 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.
This is not what the calculator widget is for. If you want to want to perform more complex math, other widgets can help you there; as an example, the Application Launcher is able to do even very complex maths through the search box, allows editing the input, and allows to be pinned to stay open. The calculator widget is not meant to be that. |
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.)