Public bug reported:
This is a usability bug my parents reported to me last month.
Use case: it's mid-December 2011 and you want to plan your next holidays
in August 2012.
What my parents did:
- Opened the calendar indicator
- Set the year to 2012
- Increase the month from December to August (so the year became 2013)
- Thought the calendar is buggy because this August calendar is not the same as
in a paper calendar (they did not noticed/expected that the year was bumped
when the month passed from December to January).
I see two potential solutions:
- Do not raise the year when picking a month if the user has just selected a
year (may not work for all use case?)
- Make the year bump more noticeable (use a graphical effect)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 21 12:04:30 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-13 (38 days ago)
** Affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity
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Date picker is confusing when selecting the year first
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