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indicator-datetime package

different text color for dates from previous/next month

Bug #1075502 reported by Robert Roth
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Bug Description

Currently Indicator datetime displays all the dates with the same color, thus causing confusion (like bug #1075317) with duplicate dates (see the attached screenshot, has dates 26-31 and 1-6 duplicated, at first sight it might be confusing to tell whether 26th of September is Sunday or Wednesday).
Google Calendar (in the month view) for example solves this by displaying dates of the current month with black, and dates from the next/previous month with grey, and adding the abbreviated month name to each month's 1st day.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: indicator-datetime 12.10.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 589b7562703a9b18f8c7bdabc7186c59
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Tue Nov 6 12:58:52 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-21 (351 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-26 (11 days ago)

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Added design for feedback, as the specification [1] does not detail this case, and design feedback is required on how to improve the situation.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#Monthly_calendar

tags: added: needs-design
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Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 876167, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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