Bug 276364

Summary: Plasma Calendar has a blue square of uselessness
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Jeffrey <eljefedelito>
Component: widget-clockAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: eljefedelito, gregor, thelwyn
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Jeffrey 2011-06-23 22:18:52 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.3) 
OS:                Linux

Sorry if this is the wrong Plasma component.

The 'Selected Date' on the Calendar is bright and draws the eyes towards it, and it also affects the displayed date 06/23/11.  However, this never changes and because its so prominent in two ways (colour and displayed date), it leads one to believe that this is Today.  But it isn't and it never changes unless I make it something else.

Today is in Black, which recedes from the eye, making it less prominent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Look at the calendar and think you don't have an appointment, but really you do.

Actual Results:  
Miss your appointment.

Expected Results:  
I expect the bright, eye-catching date to be today.

The 'selected date' (to me at least) has a limited usefulness and perhaps that could be the one in Black; today should be the one that draws the eye.  Perhaps hovering over other dates can display the MM/DD/YY (06/23/11) version of the date rather than changing the rather static date on the calendar.

Or maybe, after X time, that blue square and MM/DD/YY defaults back to Today.

Thanks for KDE!
Comment 1 Gregor Tätzner 2011-12-02 17:10:16 UTC 
In KDE 4.7 the calendar widget got a rewrite. Can you try out the new version?
Comment 2 Kolia 2011-12-07 22:06:00 UTC 
That's the same in kde 4.7.3. I do agree, I'm always looking for the current day because of this.
Comment 3 Jeffrey 2011-12-07 22:37:00 UTC 
I'm running 4.7.2 on Debian Sid and the blue square is still on the calendar, not moving, not doing anything.
Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2011-12-08 10:22:45 UTC 
Git commit d5d5c587ecf33a401a0f0ec8f639afe3128d1c7c by Aaron Seigo.
Committed on 08/12/2011 at 11:22.
Pushed by aseigo into branch 'master'.

swap today/selected highlights

BUG:276364

M  +-    --    desktoptheme/air/widgets/calendar.svgz

http://commits.kde.org/kde-runtime/d5d5c587ecf33a401a0f0ec8f639afe3128d1c7c
Comment 5 Jeffrey 2011-12-08 14:55:41 UTC 
While I appreciate the attention and I think the swap is a good start, couldn't we just get rid of the Selected Date thing?  I don't see its benefits that a mouse-hover couldn't do better.