1845021 - Calendar: Option to disable dots in mini calendar

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Petr Špaček]

Attachment: mini-calendar-screenshot.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

Upgraded Thunderbird from 102.13.0 to 115.0.1.

Actual results:

Mini-calendar now shows dots under every single day number. See attached screenshot.

The rendering of mini-calendar is correct because I indeed have calendar event for every single day.

Expected results:

The problem is that for calendars full of events the blue dot does not provide new value and makes UI experience worse than no dot at all.

I can see several ways out:

• A configuration option to disable the blue dot would be nice.
• A documented workaround using userChrome.css or something like that to make the dot invisible.
• Some sort of heuristics, like don't display dots if all days (or working days?) have a dot. (But this sounds too surprising to me.)

Comment 1

[Petr Špaček]

Workaround for anyone who stumbles on this bug - userChrome.css to hide dots:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
calendar-minimonth {
--mmDayBusyIndicatorSize: 0 !important;
}

Comment 2

[Peter]

I have the same problem: My calendar is full of recurring events, it looks exactly the same as Petr's screenshot in the first comment.

These dots are not useful for me and only clutter the mini calendar overview. Now my Thunderbird Calendar experience is worse after the update from version 102 to version 115.

Comment 3

[PAuerbach]

I'm having the exact same problem. I'm running version 115.4.1. My mini-calendar has dots under every single day.

I'm not looking to remove all dots; I just want to see dots only on dates when events are scheduled.

Comment 4

[drghughes]

For me, the best option would be to allow people to indicate whether they want a blue dot for the event or task when they create the event/task.

That way I could get a blue dot for an important event/task and not for everything else.

Comment 5

[Kyle [:Alscenic]]

The workaround I've found is to set Options -> Show Time as -> Free for each event, which I guess explains the naming of the CSS variable Petr changed to remove them entirely.

But I agree with drghughes, a specific option for the dots would be quite nice, maybe an "Off/Default/Forced" setting.