SUMMARY When you click on an event, a pane is opened on the right hand side. To close this pane, however, no "close" button is offered like in every other KDE application (e.g. System Monitor). Adding it would make the UX easier and more consistent with the rest of the experience on desktop-like devices. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click on an event to open the details pane OBSERVED RESULT The pane has no "close" button. EXPECTED RESULT The pane has a "close" button. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: KDE neon KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0 Qt Version: 5.15.4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Created attachment 150056 [details] Screenshot of Calendar Hi Robert, please check the button to the left of the incidence information drawer header -- this is a close button to collapse the right drawer Additionally, the drawer can be closed by clicking on empty space in the main calendar views
(In reply to Claudio Cambra from comment #1) > Created attachment 150056 [details] > Screenshot of Calendar > > Hi Robert, please check the button to the left of the incidence information > drawer header -- this is a close button to collapse the right drawer > > Additionally, the drawer can be closed by clicking on empty space in the > main calendar views Thanks. The fact that I had never noticed this despite using the software everyday, however, does confirm in my view that more consistency with other KDE software is needed. Would you consider making it a proper "close" button and including it in the pane itself, rather than grouping it with other buttons in the top bar?
(In reply to Riccardo Robecchi from comment #2) > (In reply to Claudio Cambra from comment #1) > > Created attachment 150056 [details] > > Screenshot of Calendar > > > > Hi Robert, please check the button to the left of the incidence information > > drawer header -- this is a close button to collapse the right drawer > > > > Additionally, the drawer can be closed by clicking on empty space in the > > main calendar views > > Thanks. The fact that I had never noticed this despite using the software > everyday, however, does confirm in my view that more consistency with other > KDE software is needed. Would you consider making it a proper "close" button > and including it in the pane itself, rather than grouping it with other > buttons in the top bar? This is the default close action for Kirigami drawers and is in line with other Kirigami applications like Neochat, so it is unlikely we will change this behaviour to be in line with the older QWidgets apps
(In reply to Claudio Cambra from comment #3) > This is the default close action for Kirigami drawers and is in line with > other Kirigami applications like Neochat, so it is unlikely we will change > this behaviour to be in line with the older QWidgets apps This doesn't change the fact that the current implementation is very poor from a UX and UI perspective. In Neochat, the button to open the drawer is always there, while in Kalendar is not (it appears out of nothing when you first select an event); in Neochat, it is the only button on the top bar, so it's easy to see it, while on Kalendar it is surrounded by other buttons; in Neochat you can only open the sidebar by clicking on the button, which means that it is straightforward to understand how to close it, while in Kalendar you open the sidebar by clicking on an event, which therefore doesn't make "click on a button that you didn't know existed and which is not in the context of the sidebar in order to close it" exactly clear. Not a single other application that I know of, in Linux or any other environment, does this and for very good reason. Among other things, it breaks POLA.