Bug 511155

Created attachment 186185 [details]
With delimiter before 6.5.0

SUMMARY
Before 6.5.0 Plasma was automatically adding an inline pipe divider between the Date and Time.

Apparently some users did not like that. I do not question that.
https://discuss.kde.org/t/a-pipe-vertical-line-character-shows-between-date-and-time-in-the-digital-clock-widget-on-the-panel/30374

And it was removed with 6.5.0.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499989

The alternative was to add a pipe or comma in the Custom Date format.

This does not seem like a polished solution:

- Depending on the Font you use, the pipe may not be centered vertically (Fira Sans for example)
- Using a pipe causes a slight padding to be added on right side of it depending on the time format you use and the Font weight (Bold or not etc). The only moment it looks right is when you use a 24-Hour format AND your time is between 12:00 and 23:59.

So in order to prevent that visual flaw you have to use something else than a pipe as the divider. But the pipe is the one that we, at Garuda Linux, find the better looking for our themes, it fits perfectly well. Was fitting perfectly well before 6.5.0, now by adding it manually it introduced a visual flaw.

By adding a comma (,) for example, it makes the entire line with too many commas, we have one after the Day of the Week and then another one after the Date, which is another reason why the pipe was perfect visually speaking.

What are the suggestions if we want to keep the pipe, have equally spaced characters no matter the Time format and keep our theme's system Font?



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