GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 763771
(Month view) dates in other months look blank when they have events
Last modified: 2017-07-30 15:08:47 UTC
In the month view there are cells for dates outside the month that is being viewed (you can see the end of February and the beginning of April when looking at March, for example). These cells are presented as empty white squares, even if they correspond with a date that has events. I know that these cells don't have a date marked on them, but it is still easy to get confused, particularly if you have multi-day events which span the beginning or end of the month. There are two possible fixes for this: 1. Make the cells in other months grey. 2. Show the events in dates that belong to other months
(In reply to Allan Day from comment #0) I support your complaint. It should be similar to the way, Google handles the month view in their calendar: All events in the past are shown in slightly faded colors, regardless of the month's beginning or ending. Future events are just displayed in the grid (7x5 or 7x6 fields). I only disagree with your first proposal to fix the problem: "1. Make the cells in other months grey." Faded colors are better, because they still indicate the (colored) calendar, they are associated to (provided you have multiple calendars with different colors). In addition, gray (or: colored) cells should indicate the current day, imho.
Created attachment 356599 [details] [review] month-view: grey out invalid days It should be very clear that days outside the current month are actually not valid. The current drawing algorithm does not differentiate that, thought, and draws everything at the same color. Fix that by greying out the days outside the current month.
Attachment 356599 [details] pushed as d11ed85 - month-view: grey out invalid days