… like:
no ability to display an alternate date (other than a month in the current year).
week numbers not shown.
no holiday events.
Am I missing something here, I vaguely recall back on 13.something needing to install an additional package. Or is this now all there is to the calendar, or perhaps it’s not yet been fully ported to ‘5’?
Ah! and I’ve just now found the clock widget has lost the ability for custom font settings and to display time in ISO8601 format… I feel a ‘hissy fit’ coming on 
What do you mean with “alternate date”?
A month of a different year?
Works fine here, but you need to use the arrow buttons. Probably not the user-friendliest option, I’d say. I think this got changed for 5.3 to be this way not too long ago…
week numbers not shown.
Well, missing feature or design decision, I don’t know.
no holiday events.
Missing feature, that can only be implemented when KDEPIM (or to be precise, kdepimlibs) is released as KF5 version.
Planned for the August 15.08 release.
Am I missing something here, I vaguely recall back on 13.something needing to install an additional package.
You probably mean plasma-calendar-akonadi. But that only applies to KDE4, see above.
Ah! and I’ve just now found the clock widget has lost the ability for custom font settings and to display time in ISO8601 format…
The latter is because KDE Frameworks5 use Qt’s locale stuff (which in turn just uses the “system”, i.e. LC_*) instead of implementing its own thing.
Supporting custom formats (in Qt5) is planned, but not implemented yet.
See also here, e.g.: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=124741
Adjusting the clock font isn’t possible either at the moment. No idea whether this is planned or not, better ask upstream and/or file bug reports at http://bugs.kde.org/…
I may need to know, for example, what day of the week Aug 27th 2006 was - on the ‘4’ version I could simply type in the date. To do it now would be an awful lot of left arrow clicks…
You probably mean plasma-calendar-akonadi. But that only applies to KDE4, see above.
No, hunted through my old notes, it was ‘kdebase4-workspace-plasma-calendar (Gives “holiday events”)’.
Supporting custom formats (in Qt5) is planned, but not implemented yet.
See also here, e.g.: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=124741
OK.
Adjusting the clock font isn’t possible either at the moment. No idea whether this is planned or not, better ask upstream and/or file bug reports at http://bugs.kde.org/…
Maybe… I guess they’re mostly busy working on more pressing features.
Thanks wolfi.
Well, use korganizer… 
But as I said, yes, that’s how it is at the moment.
If you think that should be changed again, you should better discuss that upstream at KDE.
No, hunted through my old notes, it was ‘kdebase4-workspace-plasma-calendar (Gives “holiday events”)’.
All right, I mixed up the package names…
Still, that only applies to KDE4 as mentioned.
This option will not be available in Plasma 5 until August at the soonest.
It was considered as minor/irrelevant though by the openSUSE KDE maintainers and even all users that took part of the discussions/survey about Plasma5 going to be the default.
Maybe… I guess they’re mostly busy working on more pressing features.
Maybe, maybe not.
It might also be considered not necessary, or just have been “forgotten”…
I don’t even find a bug report about this.
And maybe there’s some other clock widget that supports it? Would be a workaround at least.
Regarding the week numbers, I did find this bug report that got closed as WONTFIX:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338195
But at least the responsible developer stated:
Given the overly high demand for this feature I’m reconsidering the decision and thinking about putting it as an option to the main applet.
I have no idea if/when this will be added though.
Now that’s an overkill 
- besides, I’ve got rid of all that KDE PIM/Akonadi stuff. For the moment I’ll use Lightning within Thunderbird, nonetheless, thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for the rest of the info, particularly the week number bug report. It’s just been reopened, so there’s hope on that one.
Well, for Holidays, kdepimlibs is needed, even on KDE4. And that in turn requires Akonadi (installed, not running, unless you want to display Akonadi calendar events too of course), that’s why kdebase4-workspace-plasma-calendar is a separate package in the first place.
Btw, in KF5, kdepimlibs and Akonadi are split up in many smaller packages, so this might even be an improvement for you then…
Thanks for the rest of the info, particularly the week number bug report. It’s just been reopened, so there’s hope on that one.
Oh. It was still closed when I wrote my previous reply…
OK sounds good to me.
Oh. It was still closed when I wrote my previous reply…
I filed a wish for some of the other functionality to be returned…
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348075
Received a wrist slap for it being a ‘multi-wish’, but it’s looking hopeful.
This is already done, but not committed, see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122488/
Ah! I was sure I read somewhere about that. I did see that review request not too long ago, but my memory was a bit too vague…
And it’s actually more than just an added year selector…
Will hopefully be in 5.4 as well then, it seems.
Btw:
> > Custom font settings.>
> 348072 – WISH: Plasmashell digital clock font should be configurable
Apologies, didn’t find that when I searched.
Yes, I didn’t find it either when having a look at KDE’s bugzilla while writing my previous reply… 
It was filed just today, after I looked.
PS: a patch to bring back font settings to the digital clock is currently under review already:
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123877/
For that, I would use
cal 8 2006
at the command line.
Wasn’t even aware of that command.
From now on, so will I.
Many thanks
Thanks for the link…
Another update: the responsible developer now asked for help/advise regarding the week numbers.
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=126618
The functionality seems to be ready basically, but the visual look should still be improved…
Once again… Thanks for the link.