datetime indicator won't show today's date if you've ever clicked on any others

Marking as wishlist as you can see what today's date is (it's written right above) but there's no way to move the calendar back to today's date.

Oh wow, I didn't notice today's date was in there, because it was written in black on dark grey in the default theme. Nobody I'd asked in person about this could read that either.

Adding an Ayatana Design task as we probably need to address the issue of having a button or some other way to return to today's date in the calendar on the menu.

Perhaps the date should simply be reset when the indicator menu is closed (for a few seconds).

Having just missed turning in a homework because I thought it was last week, I would like to testify as to this bug's importance. I wouldn't expect it to keep highlighting the old date after the widget is closed, so I don't think a "clear" button is necessary: it can just remove the old date.

This will require a fix to ido for "set date" which will have to be invoked on "about to show" in the indicator datetime.

attached ido calendar menu item update which is half of a fix for this bug

added some code to reset the calendar after a while yesterday, I'm testing that at the moment to make sure it works as expected, apparently mterry is going to be a hero and get a dbusmenu close signal in which would make this a lot better.

mterry's opened/closed signal has been merged so will hook into that and ditch the timer.

Setting this bug back to confirmed after testing seems to not work with toplevel menus, dbusmenu changes required.

I've created the following bug to group these calendar widget related issues;

"IDO calendar should replace GtkCalendar wrapper with a grid layout menu"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ido/+bug/742370

Karl is that one likely to be fixed for natty?

I'll discuss with mterry if we can get the closed signal sent on menu close, that way we don't have to mess around with strange timers which might mess up the user experience more.

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 0.2.3-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (0.2.3-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    ∘ Use GTK directly for detecting when the menu appears and disappears
      to reset the date (LP: #649800)
    ∘ Handle items being removed from the locations list by choosing
      another item in the list (LP: #740948)
    ∘ Check for resume in the service and update the label as well
      (LP: #759854)
 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:51:20 -0500

After upgrading to saucy I have this problem so it seems to have resurfaced, version 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1

I can confirm that. It's quite confusing.

I don't know whether this was ever successfully fixed, but it is now tracked in bug 793450.