Re: Calendar Implementation

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:56 -0400, Mark Curtis wrote:
> So in the latest build, clicking the date shows the calendar.
> Currently it just shows the calendar and that is it.  Are there plans
> to have it work with evolution (or whatever email client)?  

The long term goal is to have a similar feature set to the current GNOME
Panel clock (intlclock)

> I've also noticed that the calendar dropdown is available while in
> overlay but the user menu in the upper right is not.  I feel that
> either both or neither should be available in overlay.

Both *should* be available in the overlay - but its easy to do for the
Calendar (which is implemented in Clutter) and hard to do for the user
drop menu (which is a standard GTK+ menu)

> Slightly off topic, having the date show in the middle illustrates
> that themes were the title of a  window is center isn't really center
> of the window, but center of the remaining space left after
> min/max/close.  Would this sort of thing be fixed in GTK+3?

Well, it's more of a Mutter issue than a GTK+ issue. There's a patch to
allow themes to truly center window titles sitting there that I need to
go ahead and finish applying:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591842#c3

- Owen