Comments on: New Google Calendar Gadget – YAGCG

By: Bernie Thompson

Bernie Thompson — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:30:10 +0000

Hi Sean – one of the tradeoffs of the method the widget is built on, is we don’t have any way to know the colors google assigns in calendar.

So we assign a unique color to each calendar, but unfortunately it’s not possible to specify an exact color, or have it automatically match what native google calendar has assigned!

Thanks for the great feedback, though!

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:12:33 +0000

This calendar gadget is far and away better than the official calendar gadget. Awesome work!

One little question. I’m noticing that some of the colors in the gadget come up as different colors than the ones I’ve specified in my “real” calendar. Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Thanks and great work!

By: Bernie Thompson

Bernie Thompson — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:15:51 +0000

Hi Alex – I’m not adding features, but I do use it on my own home page. No updates since 2008, actually – a credit to the google gadget framework that it’s stable over time!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:17:02 +0000

Still working on your gcal gadget? Was going to add it then in feedback looked like it was abandoned. Will give it a tgry but guessing it will be too buggy if not updated since 2009. Cheers!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:44:53 +0000

Would this work on google sidebar as well? How is this managed?

By: Allan

Allan — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:14:27 +0000

Great gadget! However, it would be cool if it was possible to change the height of the gadget (i.e. the number of events).

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By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:03:14 +0000

Hmm.. Time for google to give more API. That’s frustrating.

Wording looks good.

By: Bernie Thompson

Bernie Thompson — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:36:19 +0000

Yes, the login behavior is going to follow that pattern — it’s tied to how Google’s embedded calendar widget works.

One thing that’ll be done to ease this is a quick link to open Gcal in another window (and thus refresh the cookie particular to the embedded view).

Right now, I’m looking at having links above the agenda:

“Today” to reset the agenda view back to having today’s events at the top
“Full View” to open gcal in a new page/tab
“Quick Add” to add an event

Wording look right?