547445 - Calendar does not open at today's date

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Lightning Only, defect)

Description

[Roadie-man]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.2 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.2 Firefox/3.6

When opening Lightning, it opens at the last date that was selected before that session was closed. This is bad usability and should open at today's if the previous selected date was in the past.

It doesn't really make sense that TB opens at the previously selected date and is not the practice of the other major calendars available. It's a bit of a annoyance that when I open my calendar every day that I have to click the today button to see my schedule for the day. That's just bad usability.

From a usability point of view Lightning should open at today's date if the selected date from a previous session is in the past. 

If anything this should be made configurable if other users do not agree with my opinion.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open TB / Lightning and select today's date or a date in the past.
2.Close TB / Lightning.
3.Open TB / Lightning the next day.
Actual Results:  
TB / Lightning opened at yesterday's date or the date in the past that was set before closing.

Expected Results:  
Expect TB / Lightning to open at today's date. There is no point in opening at a date in the past.

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Thanks for filing this bug, this has been annoying me too. I think we should revert to the old behavior that the calendar opens at the current date.

Comment 2

[Tom Phan]

Thank you for submitting this software deficiency report.  I agree Lightning should open as other calendar products do and synchronize with the system date.  Lightning's current behaviour is untenable.

Comment 3

[Touchard]

Idem in Windows

Comment 4

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Attachment: Fix - v1

Comment 5

[Roadie-man]

How can I apply the fix to test it?

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> How can I apply the fix to test it?
If you are building your own Thunderbird/Lightning, then just hg import the patch. Otherwise, you'll need to do it manually, or wait until a day after this bug is marked FIXED and use the nightly versions.

Comment 7

[Roadie-man]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > How can I apply the fix to test it?
> If you are building your own Thunderbird/Lightning, then just hg import the
> patch. Otherwise, you'll need to do it manually, or wait until a day after this
> bug is marked FIXED and use the nightly versions.

OK, I'll have to wait as I have no clue how to build TB.

Comment 8

[Markus Adrario [:Taraman]]

Comment on attachment 433722 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix - v1

patch is clean and works

r=markus

Comment 9

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Pushed to comm-central <http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/f2c25b446a72>
-> FIXED

Comment 10

[karasaharam]

Hello there. I just opened an account to report this bug and I am happy to see it has been worked on already.
My question is now, since I am not a developer, how do I import the patch? 
I also wanted to download a newer version of Lightning, but the one available is Updated January 12, 2010 [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/tag/Calendar]. So that one might not be the actual one, since the patch has been done on March 25th.
What shall I do, because I really need the calendar to be working like in the old days, i.e. opening up on the actual date.
Thanks for helping.