gnome-shell calendar widget is not centered on the screen

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

With the new eoan wallpaper it is obvious that calendar widget, is not in fact, centered on the screen. Nor is like left/right aligned to the centre either.

It feels as if it is centered, with an offset / margin on the left.

between "right edge of the app menu" and "left edge of the top right indicators", instead of centered to the screen width.The blue line on the screenshot is the centre fold of the screen, you can see that the wallpaper is correctly centered with the animal circle in the centre.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

With help from willcooke, it seems that the dock pushes the calendar to be centered on the space between the dock right edge and the right edge of the screen, when dock has "auto-hide" setting turned off.

With auto-hide on, calendar widget is correctly centered.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

This is on purpose; the clock widget is centred with respect to the 'content area'.

So IMO -1 for this being a bug, and certainly -1 for a release critical bug.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

@laney

in that case the wallpaper background should too be centered and zoomed on the 'content area', especially if such concept / area exists.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This is becoming problematic. Maybe we should consider just properly centering everything (again).

IIRC, the clock and calendar were shifted for the use case of low resolution screens where the dock accounted for a larger proportion of the screen.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Closing as wontfix. We won't fix this for release. The alternative would mean that the clock wouldn't be centered with half-tiled windows. The clock is centered on the workspace.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Sorry, not "closing", tagging.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Upstream context is here for reference: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792354

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I don't think "the alternative" need be singular. We could also shift the wallpaper itself as part of the scaling to fit the screen. I was the last person to touch that code and doing it that way would avoid compromising any of the work we've already done for shifting the clock.

That said, I agree it's not a priority.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Despite comment #9, my personal vote would be for the clock/calendar to never move, always be centred.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

My second preference would probably be something completely different: Move the clock calendar to the right hand side.

My third preference would be the current behaviour of placing the clock/calendar over the work area (maximized windows') centre.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I think this should be closed. I'm going to do that. I actually think that Will meant to when he wrote comment #6.

The idea is the the title of a maximised window is below the clock, or (for example) centred when you have two windows side by side. That means it has to be not in the centre of the whole screen when the dock is not auto-hidden, and vice-versa. The team discussed this extensively at the time (when we introduced the dock I think), and most recently in Paris sprint and we re-confirmed that this is the behaviour that we thought was desirable. I don't think there's much sense in having this topic permanently open as an energy and time sink.

If there *is* a bug here, perhaps it is that we should not produce default wallpapers which look visually centered.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I feel we've settled on a poor design, but wasn't going to raise the issue until xnox and popey did recently in these bug reports. If a few of us still have concerns then it's a valid discussion. And at the same time "Won't Fix" and "Opinion" are also understandable responses...

Caring about the product is important, and if multiple people still feel it is below par then it is reasonable to discuss this still.