Have you ever tried to click on the clock section of your Chromebook shelf to see what the date is to be disappointed because it is not presented to you as a calendar, but rather as plain text? On Windows 10, there is a mini-calendar widget (see below) that can help you visualize and contextualize your month at a glance. Since Chrome OS became my daily manager, it’s something I’ve missed a lot. Now it looks like the development team can bring something similar to Chromebooks!
A new Chromium Gerrit bug report, first discovered by super Kent at Android Police, identifies a “calendar widget feature” and connects it to the “scalable status area” we previously reported on. Finally, your device can soon do more than just show you the month and day on the shelf, it can also make you look at the current calendar month with a single click.
Scalable status area: Post the change of date in the later launch.
We decided to announce the changes in the date later as this change is consistent with the calendar widget feature. The change has moved to another feature flag.
Chromium Gerrit
If this is the case and I have no reason to believe that it will not happen, it is no longer necessary to open the Google Calendar web application to gain a better understanding of the weeks or months ahead. I can not tell you how many times I had to do it! There is currently no mention in your error report of your upcoming events or reminders appearing in the widget, but it would be a great addition.
If Google were to explore the possibility of making this widget more functional, it would probably mean that deeper integration with Google Calendar at the system level would be necessary. However, as the Files app and Google Photos gain system-level integration, the development team seems to be relying heavily on the idea of making the operating system work with more Google services instead of being app-dependent for core and even secondary functionality. .
Regardless of how it unfolds over the course of development, even a simple widget will bring Chrome OS more in line with the basic needs of Windows and macOS users new to Google’s laptops. Feature parity increases adoption rate, and as Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s SVP can be believed (and he is), Chromebook owners have many new and exciting features to look forward to this year!
