In the calendar, today's date needs more contrast to distinguish itself from the other days

[John Lea]

In usability testing, participants have commented on the fact that they cannot see today's date at a glance because there is not enough contrast between today's date that is highlighted and the rest of the calendar.

Screenshot from duplicate bug 1280874: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/166456917/Selection_452.png

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#menu-calendar>: "If a date item is the currently highlighted menu item, it should have the normal text and background highlight colors for a menu item. If a date has at least one event, its text should be bold. And today’s date should have a thin border around it in the unhighlighted text color."

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Design spec needs to be changed for this.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate?action=diff&rev2=52&rev1=51> "If a date item is the currently highlighted menu item, it should have the normal text and background highlight colors for a menu item. If a date has at least one event, its text should be bold. And today’s date should have a thin border around it in the unhighlighted text color."

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Benjamin Geer (benjamin-geer)]

Also, if you browse to a different date (e.g. several months in the future), there is no quick way to get back to today's date. Clicking on today's date in the drop-down menu should bring the calendar back to today's date.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

(Benjamin, navigating back to today is bug 1240251.)

[Tamir (sugip)]

Bug confirmed on Ubuntu 14.04 that date, not a week becomes selected (orange in native skins) up until the mouse is not to hold on top of the calendar

[grygory (connaissant)]

Брат, почини. Ибо напрягает и превращает жизнь некоторых людей в сплошную тьму с этим ужастным отображением.

[Alex (alex-serpuxov)]

Confirms bug on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

[Tamir (sugip)]

Confirms bug on Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Bug confirmed but is ubuntu-themes even related or is it a problem specific to the calendar widget?