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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Clocks context menu to fast copying date and time
From:       Emdek <emdeck () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-03-31 11:05:32
Message-ID: op.urnk3inle84fud () michal
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Hello

So I've finally started using this mailing list so I would like to post here some of \
my ideas that accumulated for some time...

Some time ago I've created wish on BKO:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173162

I'm still interested in working on this topic, and I've plans how it could be \
achieved. Firstly there could be added default contextualActions() to ClockApplet. It \
would return by default one action, lets name it clipboardMenu. This action contains \
menu connected to it. The hovered() signal of this action could be connected to not \
public slot (or public, then it could be used by developers that want to supply own \
formats, like me), lets name it updateClipboardMenu(). That slot would update actions \
in that menu, removing or updating all actions in it using for example loop with list \
of predefined date and time formats (this list should differ from that in KDE3, it \
produced often duplicated entries). It would use \
dataEngine("time")->query(currentTimezone()) for getting current date and time (so \
there is no problem if clock is updated in interval other than one second). Every \
action would be connected (for example trigerred(QAction*) signal) to not public slot \
(could be named copyToClipboard()) for copying string from action to clipboard, using \
QApplication::clipboard()->setText(action->text()).

If developers are interested and there is no objections I could try to create patch \
during this or next weekend. I'm already using this code in my applet for nearly half \
of year and it doesn't make any problems.

There is only one problem, I don't have KDE from SVN and currently I don't have time \
to get it, so I would need someone to test it (writing it's not a problem for me).

By the way, there is one virtual method that could be probably implemented in lib, \
because it probably will look the same in 95% of clock applets (I've noticed it when \
I was investigating why using wheel in my applet doesn't change time zone), I'm \
talking about this method: virtual void changeEngineTimezone(const QString \
&oldTimezone, const QString &newTimezone)


Best regards
Michał


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