Comment 3 for bug 406438

Now hold on just a minute here...

"It is better to let those who want the date displayed enable it than to require it to be disabled by those who don't need it in the panel. This philosophy of letting the user add complexity rather than creating opportunities to remove complexity from the default configuration is a thread found throughout Ubuntu."

By that logic, we should have absolutely nothing in the panels and let the user create complexity all around them.

I personally find having the date in the panel a _feature_. If I have my monitor on and I want to know what day it is, I just have to look at the clock. Now you're making the panel more like Windows where it only shows the time.

Currently, in Jaunty, if you took away the day feature, when you hover over the clock it says "Click to view your appointments and tasks". It doesn't say the day. I checked in an up-to-date Karmic (2009-08-04) and it says the same thing. So if you're going to include this patch that turns the day off, please include a patch that allows this information as a rollover at the very least.

When you click on the clock, only _then_ does the calendar come up physically selecting '4' in which I have to look up to see the month - August - and the day - Tuesday. To me, you're _adding_ complexity by taking away the date; You're making more work for the user to preform to see the date, including mental processing.