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Evolution calendar component no longer has month/calendar widget panel

Bug #58857 reported by Mark Florian
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution in edgy is lacking the calendar widget in the calendar view. Without it, it's much more cumbersome to navigate your calendar and select dates.

It seems to have been replaced by a Memos panel. This is fine, I suppose, but why not have the option to hide/display these panels as the user prefers?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your report. Can you make a screenshot of the problem? I still have a calendar in my list. Can you try View -> Layout -> ...?

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The calendar is placed on the left pane between the list of calendars and the buttons to switch between the mail, contacts, calendar, etc. Could you try to click on the bar between those and dnd to set if that's not only a matter to changing the high of the widget?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

s/to set/to see

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Mark Florian (markrian) wrote :

You're right Sebastien, it's there, just not visible by default.

That's fine, except there's a green frame around it. On some themes (ubuntulooks, for one) the frame doesn't show. When it does show, the colour seems independent of theme colours.

Should I report a new bug, or do you think it's related to https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/58659 ?

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Mark Florian (markrian) wrote :

Closing - the widget does exist, just not visible by default

Changed in evolution:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The frame issue might be the same as the GTK bug you pointed. What theme are you using?
I think the bug could be kept open because the calendar should probably be displayed by default, the current way is not easy to discover, reopening

Changed in evolution:
status: Rejected → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Can you reply to Sébastien's question?

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Mark Florian (markrian) wrote :

This bug is about the existence of the calendar widget. It turned out that it was there, but the pane wasn't shown by default - you had to drag it to a non-zero size.

However, I think this has been fixed since edgy's release. If I create a new user, log in and open Evolution, the calendar widget it displayed by default. Therefore, this bug isn't valid anymore.

The other issue, about the calendar widget having a frame drawn around it, still applies. Upon further inspection it's clear that every theme seems to draw a frame around the widget, but each with its own colour. The most obvious example is Clearlooks (stock with edgy) draws a bright green frame as I said above. I have no idea why Clearlooks would have such a colour specified...

The point it, I don't think that point is relevant for this bug, which should be closed.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for the update. Marking the bug fixed then

Changed in evolution:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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