GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 513451
Indication of "today" in calendar month view should be more clearly visible
Last modified: 2009-12-04 12:28:52 UTC
BNC bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=283721 I keep my calendar in "Month" view. When I change from Mail to Calendars, the selected day is the first day in the upper left corner. This is not necessarily the current day. The current day is only indicated by a blue day-of-the-month number instead of black. With all those different colors from all the calendars, it is visually difficult to quickly spot the current day without clicking the Today button. I can imagine it is even more difficult for people who are color-blind. Possible solutions: - Make it more clearly visible which day is the current day (e.g. give that box a different background color and a thicker border) - Add a Calendar preference to switch to today automatically when opening the calendar See attached screenshot for an example. I just switched from Mail to Calendar. It always takes me 5 seconds or so to see if I have something important planned today, just because it takes me 4.9 seconds to find the current day. The Today button is good, but this extra mouse click wouldn't be required if the current day would be more clearly visible.
definitely a duplicate.
Bumping version to a stable release.
Created attachment 132693 [details] [review] proposed evo patch for evolution; I tried with colors or similar things first, but it doesn't seem to be a good thing, because: a) using selected color as a background for Today is misleading b) other color (like active/prelight) are different for different themes, also not looking as that good I also tried with some rectangle around the day box, but it wasn't much more visible as the bold day number, thus decided for other solution. This will preselect Today on the first showing of the month view after Evolution start. If that day isn't visible for some reason, then it behaves like before. I'm fine with some better solution, but I'm not aware of any.
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> This will preselect Today on the first showing of the month view > after Evolution start. That sounds great to me! I'm forever clicking "Today" when I switch to the calendar (I use the month view too), and if it did this automatically that would be great, and would be one less thing to have to remember. I do wonder if it's worth doing this for the "Week" and "Work week" views too (not sure if they're covered by this, and it's probably more of a problem in the month view, but it may help those views too).
It would be good to set the time commonly in gnome-cal.c for all views. I guess get_times_for_views would be a place. Am not sure as I have not looked into the code enough. But definitely setting somewhere in GnomeCal would be a better to handle it centrally.
It doesn't seem to be possible there, from my point of view, as it returns a range to be shown in the view, not the selected day there. Do you want to extend the previous patch in a similar way for other views too?
yes, the month, week and work-week views possibly from gnome-cal.
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Created attachment 136827 [details] [review] proposed evo patch for evolution; I was wrong, I was awfully wrong, it is possible to do this in the gnome-cal, as you can see in this patch. And it works for all views now, when you select it for the first time.
Looks good to commit.
Created commit 186370e in evo master (2.27.4+)
Milan - first part of the bug hasn't been fixed :-) Make it more clearly visible which day is the current day (e.g. give that box a different background color and a thicker border)
(In reply to comment #13) > Milan - first part of the bug hasn't been fixed :-) > > Make it more clearly visible which day is the current day (e.g. give that box > a different background color and a thicker border) As I wrote in comment #3, there is nothing much what might fit to it, theme colors are just different for each of them. Thus at least having there the today preselected for the first time makes it clearly visible. Any idea on a change?
Created attachment 137304 [details] Sample screemshot Here i find an example where today is indicated by square box which is filled with the color different than usual day selection. It's different than evolution view as in evolution we highlight today with square box boundary, not the filled one.
Created attachment 137305 [details] Sample screemshot 2 almost same as previous one
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Confirmed fixed in 2.28.1 - today is selected by default when opening the calendar, and it's also highlighted in a different colour to the other days - looks great, thank you!
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