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For years, the Gnome 3 desktop environment was still very young and unripe, and the little calendar that popped up when you clicked on the time in the top bar was just the current month's date numbers in a grid with the current day highlighted. You could install a calendar program called Evolution (it's older than Gnome 3) and sync it to your phone/external calendar/Google calendar, so your reminders and appointments would go to the computer automatically, and you could get desktop popups and reminders from Evolution, but you couldn't launch Evolution from the calendar. In the last couple of years, the Gnome 3 calendar finally evolved to the point of displaying your schedule and calendar notifications in the calendar popup, automatically (once you go through the Google sign-in)! So you don't need Evolution to get the notifications anymore.
For years, too, I always installed a third-party Gnome shell desktop extension to put the local weather and an icon next to the date and time in my top bar. But now in Ubuntu 21.10 (and hence in next April's new long-term support release as well), this can happen automatically and natively! You download Gnome Weather and Gnome Clocks from the software channels, then put your desired settings in them - location and units in the former, and cities whose world clocks you track in the latter. Then you close them and you never have to open them again - their information appears from then on in the date/time popup!
Funny story, though. When I downloaded Weather, it opened itself for the first time already set to Turku. It must have got this from location services, because the closest the system comes on install is setting the timezone to Helsinki. I opened the settings and changed it to Pargas, and closed it again, and for the past couple of weeks, the Turku weather has been appearing in the popup, but when I click on the weather section of the popup, it opens Weather... which is already set to Pargas. (I've rebooted the system and installed updates several times in between. Not cleared the cache though. It wasn't a big deal.) But I rebooted yesterday and when the computer woke back up, it was saying Pargas in the popup. Okay then!
For years, too, I always installed a third-party Gnome shell desktop extension to put the local weather and an icon next to the date and time in my top bar. But now in Ubuntu 21.10 (and hence in next April's new long-term support release as well), this can happen automatically and natively! You download Gnome Weather and Gnome Clocks from the software channels, then put your desired settings in them - location and units in the former, and cities whose world clocks you track in the latter. Then you close them and you never have to open them again - their information appears from then on in the date/time popup!
Funny story, though. When I downloaded Weather, it opened itself for the first time already set to Turku. It must have got this from location services, because the closest the system comes on install is setting the timezone to Helsinki. I opened the settings and changed it to Pargas, and closed it again, and for the past couple of weeks, the Turku weather has been appearing in the popup, but when I click on the weather section of the popup, it opens Weather... which is already set to Pargas. (I've rebooted the system and installed updates several times in between. Not cleared the cache though. It wasn't a big deal.) But I rebooted yesterday and when the computer woke back up, it was saying Pargas in the popup. Okay then!
