Discussion: Submit to history

[stephtr]

Currently, Qalculator submits the current calculation to the history, as soon as one presses Enter or the input field looses focus. Neither am I completely happy with this behaviour, nor do I have a clear opinion about it.

I'm open for your opinions!

[vlad2305m]

Logging everything into the history is a great feature, and it should stay that way.
I feel like the current appearance of the history is a bit unhelpful. Personally I would expect only the first few entries to be those big cards, and the rest to collapse to 1-2 lines of font 14 each, 5-10px line spacing. (Scaled for high-DPI devices, of course). Maybe they could pop back into the card form one at a time as one scrolls downwards.
Also I seem to be missing something, but it is not clear to me how to access the list of bookmarks.

[stephtr]

Good idea, I'll experiment on that some time soon.

Besides optical clues, the bookmarking currently only protects against deletion, since I limited the history to 30 entries. My plan was to add a toggle history | bookmarks only, but I didn't implement it to not introduce additional visual clutter.

Such a switch however might be also beneficial for switching submission mode ("history" with blur and "bookmarks only" only on enter).