Ionic Components - Desktop support

[Newbie012]

Feature Request

Describe the Feature Request
TL;DR - Components for Desktop.
Over the past year, Ionic has outgrown and now offers more than just building mobile apps.
Since the release of Ionic 4 beta and stencil, It's much more convenient to build PWA using Ionic.
Yet, there's one thing that still prevents me to move to Ionic and that is Desktop support. Ionic has lots of components, but there are some of them that aren't exactly fit desktop mode or just doesn't exists. Currently, I'm using Angular and Angular Material (which offers desktop support).

Describe Preferred Solution

• Menu/Select Input - Many times we need some sort of menu. It exists on Material UI and so on Angular Material Select. It could have been nice if there was something like:

  <ion-select interface="dropdown">
    <ion-select-option>...</ion-select-option>
  </ion-select >
  

• DateTime - The current available DateTime will pop up from the bottom of the screen. This is the desired behavior on mobile, but is it on a desktop? IMHO Material Angular DatePicker offers a convenient way on a desktop to display the Calendar.
• Text Fields - I'm not sure on how it should be implemented on iOS, but Material has a Text Field which suggests in multiple ways on how to display the text field (e.g filled, outlined).

Describe Alternatives
Currently, my alternative is to use both Angular and Angular Material, which is a bummer.

[WhatsThatItsPat]

A date picker in the form of a calendar would be great. The Touch UI mode version, which opens as a bigger modal, is what I'd expect.

A simple idea for making pickers more usable on desktop would be to make each picker column react to the scroll wheel. Manipulating the dials is a pita by dragging with a mouse.

Helper / error text would be nice for inputs, and so would input icons.

I don't see a boilerplate difference between your suggestion and ion-select with the popover interface.

[Newbie012]

@PatrickMcD About the boilerplate difference, you're right. The reason I wrote this was because the last time I used Ionic, I didn't have the option to use interface="popover", and I had to create a new component just to display it. After I reviewed the docs again, I saw that there's already an option (and I forgot to remove that sentence about the boilerplate hell) to display the ion-select as a popover. Yet, it's still not the desired behavior.

[RHinderiks]

Agree with this.