Open calendar when "no upcoming events" is tapped

[paulmcauley]

I have the widget header hidden (another widget on my home screen shows me the date so I don't want the clutter of duplication). Unfortunately, that means that I can't easily tap on the widget to get to my Calendar app.

Could you please add a feature whereby I can just tap on the "no upcoming events" text to access the calendar?

[mpost]

Sounds like a good idea.

[jkufner]

My old pull request #67 (https://github.com/jkufner/calendar-widget/commits/always-show-today) adds option to always show today row, which is clickable. It also makes today date always visible (second option it adds), without cluttering the widget. As a result, you can see today date, you can click it to open calendar and you can see, that next event on the list is not today.

[yvolk]

@jkufner I agree that it is very convenient being able to easily see if there are any today's events.
Regarding this case, I would say that the Widget should show clickable "No upcoming events" message and hide your "Nothing for Today" ?!
I.e. this "No upcoming events" case better implement separately from your suggested "Always show today row", which will be hidden in this case ;-) ?!

[jkufner]

Reason for "Nothing for Today" is to see current date. The "No upcoming events" message has no header and thus no today date. I guess it would be better to change the message, but keep the today header in place. It was simpler to do it this way, and it is good enough for me, but feel free to improve it :)

[yvolk]

@jkufner As @paul4ig mentioned, "another widget on my home screen shows me the date so I don't want the clutter of duplication". And I agree that showing "Nothing for Today" in a case of "no events at all" is too much :-). In other cases #67 is useful...

[jkufner]

So, why not to remove the date widget?

[yvolk]

@jkufner You are right that somebody may need this. I don't mind. Anyway, I think "Nothing for Today" better discuss in another issue. Let's make this issue simple in order for it to be implemented and approved by "+1 Labs" ;-)

[jkufner]

😉

[paulmcauley]

When there is an upcoming event I think that tapping on a blank space on the widget should also bring up the calendar (without passing any parameters with regards to the day). It is also silly that this currently does nothing.

[paulmcauley]

@jkufner, I like a nice and compact (yet functional) 2x2 Calendar Widget, and unfortunately in a legible font size the date gets uglily truncated in this size so I just hide the header. Looks much cleaner without the header too, and fits in very nicely with my current setup with other less-configurable multi-functional widgets.

[jkufner]

@paul4ig: I have widget header disabled too, but my widget is a bit larger: 4x3 -- full width of display and few icons above. By "header" before I meant the smaller header starting each day, not the ugly header of the widget. Here is screenshot of my home screen:

[paulmcauley]

@jkufner, I was replying to your comment about deleting the date widget, but now I also understand what you want.

FYI, here is my set-up:

...and here is why I don't enable the main widget header as today's date duplicates info, clutters, and the date is truncated anyway at 2x2:

...and here is what it looks like when there are no upcoming events -- nice and clean looking, but a waste of 4 squares that don't do anything, meaning I have to go into the app drawer to get to the calendar app to look at dates or add a new event:

As you can see, I like to use every last bit of space efficiently, and I think @jkufner's #67 "No events today" suggestion might be useful to add clarity in some cases but indeed could over-complicate things and would also reduce the number of visible events in the forthcoming days, especially in my case of limited space. Perhaps it could be available as a separate option, along with the option on whether today's date is visible. Regardless, I think it's a separate discussion as to what I am requesting in this issue.

[jkufner]

I don't want you to enable widget's header. That thing is useless. I'm talking about day header, the "FRIDAY 15 AUGUST" and horizontal line in your screenshot.

I recomend you to remove the large clock and expand calendar widget. Clock on home screen is completely useless widget. When a phone is in your pocket, you have large clock on lock screen. When you use the phone, you can see clock all the time in top right corner. By removing useless clock you get 2 extra squares for events, but you loose the date widget. That is why I added 'Always show today' option, so the first row of calendar widget replaces it. Just as you can see in my screenshot.

It is a bit unusual from the begining when there is no large clock, but then you realize you don't miss it ;)

[yvolk]

Note: Currently click on "No upcoming events" opens Default Calendar "at today".
Google Calendar forwards this to adding new event for today...

[eturk1]

I recall that I used to be able to tap the calendar icon in the upper left to open the calendar app. By finding this request, I just found out I could now tap the date. Maybe I was missing the icon and tapping the top edge of the day. So, how about making the date icon open the calendar, rather than do nothing (at least on my phone right now)?

[yvolk]

@eturk1 This is "Go to today" icon.
In your case it does nothing, because Today is already visible :-)

[eturk1]

@eturk1 This is "Go to today" icon.
In your case it does nothing, because Today is already visible :-)

sorry, I'm also looking for a fast way to open general calendar app (w/o cal app on home), to look cal over, not a specific day or event. I learned today I can tap a day/date heading in widget to open gen cal. I'd like to tap the icon in upper left.

[yvolk]

I'm also looking for a fast way to open general calendar app (w/o cal app on home), to look cal over, not a specific day or event.

@eturk1 There is such a way also. You need to click a (current) date on the Widget's header. As I see on your screenshot, your widget is too narrow to show even a part of the date.
So in order to be able to click that date you need:
a) to make the widget wider OR
b) use the new option: "Widget header layout"="Two rows layout".

[eturk1]

Ah, so what is the calendar icon supposed to do when tapped? (I also don't want the current date showing because Pixel already has a huge date) weather widget on home screen) Erol

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[yvolk]

@eturk1 This is "Go to today" button, tapping on which the list of events scrolls so that today's events become visible. See #293

[yvolk]

I also don't want the current date showing because Pixel already has a huge date) weather widget on home screen

@eturk1 I added the feature yesterday, see #281