current date not highlighted/wrong date highlighted

[Reece]

Ubuntu 13.10, x86_64, indicator-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.

indicator-datetime provides *no highlighting at all* for the current date. Worse, it provides faint highlighting for a different date (the date I logged in?). See attached screenshot.

This is related to to several other bugs (below), but the other issues are apx 2 years old and appear to be inactive.

Implications and related UI issues:
- It is too easy for a user to interpret the faint highlighting as today's date.
- If another day has previously been clicked (even days earlier), it remains highlighted. Users will likely expect that the highlighting corresponds to today's date, not that of a click days earlier.
- The lack of a "go to today" button makes it very difficult to focus the date for common use cases (What's today's date? What am I doing today? Tomorrow?)

Related:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793450
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017595
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740817
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240251
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#menu-calendar
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ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-09 (495 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
Package: indicator-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25-generic 3.11.10
Tags: saucy third-party-packages
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-12 (97 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip kismet lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers

[John Kim (kotux)]

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[John Kim (kotux)]

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[Reece (reece)]

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[Reece (reece)]

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[Reece (reece)]

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This is reproducible. Steps:

1) Boot ubuntu.
2) Go to calendar (click indicator-datetime). Select a day in the previous or next month (any day works, but this makes a good example).
3) Click indicator again. The clicked date remains highlighted.

The confusion occurs when there is a long duration between 2 and 3: I forget I've clicked and the highlighted day is NOT today. Personally, I don't see any reason to preserve the selected day between drop down events.

(As an aside, Launchpad has a big button that says "Report a bug". It might be worth recommending ubuntu-bug in that workflow if that's the preferred method for bug reporting. Thanks for your help and I'll use ubuntu-bug next time.)

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Reece, thanks for the report, and sorry for the confusion about ubuntu-bug. Well-meaning triagers sometimes assume that every bug report needs apport info, which ubuntu-bug provides. But sometimes, as in this case, apport info is not relevant at all.