IDO calendar should replace GtkCalendar wrapper with a grid layout menu

[Karl Lattimer]

IDO calendar menu item wraps GtkCalendar and the effect is poor keyboard interaction, spurious focus changes, week start date unconfigurable.

The proposed solution is to develop the IDO calendar menu item further by removing the wrapped GtkWidget and replacing it with a custom grid layout menu.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

Bug reports related to this one;

#676222 - Broken/confusing keyboard navigation
#733276 - Calendar changes color on focus and never changes back
#740817 - Mousing over date doesn't highlight it
#740821 - Month and year navigation items aren't keyboard-selectable
#740823 - Calendar focus causes difficulties in selecting dates and adjusting months/years
#741011 - Calendar in clock menu has border and background colors

Bug reports indirectly related to this one;

#740980 - Date with event isn't highlighted in the calendar
#649800 - datetime indicator won't show today's date if you've ever clicked on any others

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Karl, shouldn't you mark some of those other bug reports as duplicates of this one? They're definitely duplicates of something.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Firstly because this is not necessarily the only solution to those bugs (even if it is probably the best solution). For example, half of bug 741011 is now fixed. And secondly because anyone re-reporting any of those problems would be unlikely to guess that this bug report covered them.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Adding the word "bug" to the list in comment #1 so that launchpad will make a clickable list:

> bug #676222 - Broken/confusing keyboard navigation
> bug #733276 - Calendar changes color on focus and never changes back
> bug #740817 - Mousing over date doesn't highlight it
> bug #740821 - Month and year navigation items aren't keyboard-selectable
> bug #740823 - Calendar focus causes difficulties in selecting dates and adjusting months/years
> bug #741011 - Calendar in clock menu has border and background colors
>
> Bug reports indirectly related to this one;
>
> bug #740980 - Date with event isn't highlighted in the calendar
> bug #649800 - datetime indicator won't show today's date if you've ever clicked on any others