Calendar icon usually shows the wrong date

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Problem occurs with: Ubuntu 14.10 r203
Does not occur with: iOS, Windows Phone

1. In the clock menu, find the calendar app and launch it.
2. In the Launcher or Dash, find the Calendar app.

What you see:
1. The icon always says "25", regardless of the actual date.
2. The icon always says "28", regardless of the actual date.

What you should see:
1. The icon shows the current date.
2. The icon shows the current date.

The equivalent for PC is bug 1362033, and for the Clock app is bug 1362964.

This depends on bug 1453795 for Unity letting an app change its own icon.

[Mihir Soni (mihirsoni)]

Matthew, thanks for the bug report, but icon is an image.

As an icon , i believe it shouldn't change frequently.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Added ubuntu-ux. Are we expecting the platform to get modifiable / animate-able icons?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Mihir, that it's an image doesn't matter. It's an image on iOS, OS X, and Windows Phone too, but they don't have the problem.

[Kunal Parmar (pkunal-parmar)]

yes, on many platform ICON changes date as per current date, thought for this issue we need support from platform. Not sure what calendar can do.

[Felix Wilke (felixw83)]

I think the current behavior is misleading. The Indicator is supposed to list the dates of the next events. Today is the 20th. A quick look at my events leads me to the wrong conclusion, that my next three events are on 25th - even though they are on Wednesday (!the only shown information!) which is the 22nd.

If it is not recommended to change the icon to the respective date, an icon with no actual number should be used.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

(Added unity8 since this requires either special-casing the Calendar, or an API for an app to change its own icon.)

[Johannes Kempf (johanneskempf)]

As a workaround I would suggest to implement felixw83's proposal: Use a neutral picture without a number for indicator and app-icon as long as an automatically change of icon can't be implemented.
The "25" and "28" are very irritating and misleading.

[Johannes Kempf (johanneskempf)]

At least the network-indicators are able to change its icons. The signal-strength is visualized via the icon itself.

[Johannes Kempf (johanneskempf)]

At least the telegram app is able to indicate the number of unread messages within its icon.
Why not using this visualization method to indicate the current day's number?

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

@renato
Please change the icon used in the indicator to use generic calendar icon that doesn't have a date as this is confusing (per design, comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-calendar-app/+bug/1362962/comments/7)

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

indicator-datetime is already using the generic calendar icon from ubuntu-mobile/actions/scalable/calendar.svg, which has the '25' in it.

IMO the issue is that the icon should be tweaked to remove the '25'

[Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho)]

My sugestion is to use the appointment icon that does not contain any number.

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

Symbolic icon proposition in attachment.

[Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho)]

@Matthieu, could you replace the theme icon with the new one?

[Matthieu James (tiheum)]

I will update the theme today with a new generic calendar mono icon (for the indicator).
We are not planning to change the calendar app icon (or to make dynamic) at the moment.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

tiheum, \o/

[Ryan Prior (ryanprior)]

This should be closed as "won't fix," marking it as "released" is misleading.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Reopening since the calendar app icon is still unchanged

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

@design
We just need an updated application icon for the calendar app that doesn't use a number (i.e. 28)

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

based on this comment
We are not planning to change the calendar app icon (or to make dynamic) at the moment.

This bug is still open

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

The action icon was updated but not the app icons