530727 - The go to specific date field from Lightning 0.9 no longer exists in 1.0

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Tashjian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091121 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0

In previous versions of Lightning you could enter a specific date (such as 11/20/2011) on the left-hand side, between the current month's calender and the list of your calendars.  This field no longer exists in 1.0 and I can't seem to find another way to jump ahead to a specific date.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch TB 3
2. Click the calendar icon on the left side
Actual Results:  
The field is missing

Expected Results:  
You see the jump to specific date field as noted in the description

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

The datepicker has been removed on purpose with Bug 467909.

Comment 2

[Chris Tashjian]

Ah, "datepicker", I tried searching but didn't find it.  That said, I really think that we need this functionality.  I see in the trail of bugs attached to those issues that one possibility was to add it via Sunbird's menuitem, but that was dropped.  Even if it was available via a right-click context menu or something, it's functionality that I find very handy.

Comment 3

[MarcoS]

I think is has not been dropped intentionally. Bug 456385 comment 3 states: 
...it should be evaluated if Sunbird´s menuitem Go/Date that raises the date dialog should not be integrated to a menu of Lightning as a substitution for the removed datepicker beneath the minimonth in the calendar view. 
As far as I can tell no one actually did evaluate it. 
I too like this functionality back in some way.

Comment 4

[Seán Ó Séaghdha]

Now with the demise of Sunbird I'm forced to use Lightning and I really miss being able to go directly to a date.  Why can't this be in Lightning?

(actually I don't really understand why Sunbird needs to be jammed into Thunderbird either, but that's another kettle of sea creatures)

Comment 5

[Felix G]

I agree with the other commenters that the "Go to Date" feature is an important functionality. When moving from Sunbird to Lightning, I couldn't believe it was discarded until I found the related bugs here.

So: Is the "Go to Date" functionality now completeley discarded? I don't need it at a prominent UI position, but at least via a menu entry, so that one can easily navigate to some date via keyboard. Has anyone already tried to patch this functionality into Lightning on its own?

Comment 6

[M Lopez-Ibanez]

(In reply to Felix G from comment #5)
> one can easily navigate to some date via keyboard. Has anyone already tried
> to patch this functionality into Lightning on its own?

It seems no. Perhaps you should try to produce a patch or an extension. If it is working correctly, perhaps it will get adopted. I will test it.