Bug 464156

Summary:	Calculators input field behaves unexpected
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons	Reporter:	contact
Component:	calculator	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	NixOS
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description contact 2023-01-11 14:58:09 UTC

DESCCRIPTION
The Input field of Calculator is really weird given it is part of a modern Operating system.

- there is no Cursor
- you can't select text
- pressing backspace does not delete the last digit you typed
- there is no history, you cannot fix a typo by pressing Ctr+Z
- pressing "Delete" deletes the entire formula

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I am aware, that this is how old-school physical calculators used to work, but I think it is impractical in a modern Desktop, for the meta discussion, visit Ticket #463809.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-01-11 16:48:42 UTC

There are 5 issues reported in here; we need one bug report per issue please. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting#Multiple_issues_in_a_single_Bugzilla_ticket

> - there is no Cursor
> - you can't select text
Already tracked by Bug 435749.

> - pressing backspace does not delete the last digit you typed
Already tracked by Bug 425430.

So please file two new bug reports for these:
> - there is no history, you cannot fix a typo by pressing Ctr+Z
> - pressing "Delete" deletes the entire formula

Comment 2 contact 2023-01-14 16:19:41 UTC

> So please file two new bug reports for these:
okay I've summarised it here as I felt these bugs will have the same solution ... but anyways, I am currently getting familiar with kde development utils and will assign myself the things I think I can fix.