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Bug 775442 - Let me enter (and parse) raw times instead of forcing the time widget
Let me enter (and parse) raw times instead of forcing the time widget
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-calendar
Classification: Applications
Component: User Interface
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 3.26
Assigned To: GNOME Calendar maintainers
GNOME Calendar maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-12-01 04:30 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2017-11-24 22:03 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2016-12-01 04:30:00 UTC
When editing the advanced properties of an event, on a non-touch device like a traditional computer, I never ever want to deal with that weird clicky widget for entering the times, it's not fast enough for me. Especially when the system tries to second-guess what I mean and gets it wrong (bug #775441 :)

I want to just type in:

1930  2000

or

19h30 20

or
19:30 20h00

...and be done with it. No clicking with small increments, no tabbing more than once.

If you want to have those touch-oriented widgets available, please make them available with a clickable dropdown arrow just like the date picker widgets, and let me type raw text in a TextEntry besides those arrows instead.
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2016-12-01 04:36:14 UTC
Oh, I forgot to specify: I consider this a separate feature request than bug #700673 because it's much more reliable, easier, and quicker to implement than "full sentence natural language parsing" (because the parsing is constrained to specific text entry widgets instead of having to figure out the dates from a "whole sentence" haystack). It's kind of a in-between approach, one that is guaranteed to be parsed correctly for the users, which has intrinsic value (it's amazing how often most apps—even Google Calendar—fail to parse natural language, making me start over to fix the event, wasting tons of time)
Comment 2 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2017-11-24 22:03:40 UTC
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