GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318549
panel's calendar should bring up evolution on the selected day
Last modified: 2009-07-29 17:38:51 UTC
When I double-click on a day in the calendar of Gnome panel's clock applet, "evolution -c calendar" is executed, which brings an evolution window showing today. I'd expect it to show the day I clicked on in the calendar. With the current behavior, when I want to add a note to a day, I double click on it, then write the reminder into evolution, and sometimes don't realize that I added it to today instead of the day I wanted to. It's not a good idea that I find the day once in the applet, and then have to manually find it again in evolution. Similar: if I want to see why a particular day is highlighted on the panel applet calendar, I double click on it, and then I have to find this day again in evolution, instead of immediately seeing the notes for that day. (I put it into product Evolution since I guess first evolution needs support for per-component command line options such as startup day in calendar, and then when it's done it can be recategorized to gnome-panel.) (This might sound as an enhancement request, but in my opinion it is a not-so-small usability bug. YMMV of course, feel free to lower the severity if you disagree.)
Confirming it as enhancement at present.
This one bit me instantly when I tried to use the calendar and Evolution the first time. I happily entered a meeting and set an alarm. Nothing happened on that day and time when I expected it. It wasn't before some time later I realized that I actually set that meeting on the current day - I thought Evolution ate it. I'd say it's definitely a significant usability bug, if the calendar should open Evolution (and it should). On a related note, I think that tasks and meetings should be able to be added without having to open Evolution - it just takes way too long. For more finegrained edits and alarms, those tasks/meetings should in turn be possible to open in Evolution.
Seems like this one can be closed as it behaves as expected, at least here with Evolution 2.8.3 on Fedora Core 6.
Yeah, it works as expected. I'm closing it, thanks to all interested.