Calendarium

A rich, highly customizable calendar and astronomical information desklet for the Cinnamon Desktop.

Features

• Date & Time — Customizable strftime format, 12/24-hour, optional seconds
• Calendar Highlights — Day of year, ISO week number, month progress, New Year countdown
• Traditional Month Names — Old Hungarian, Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Old German
• Folk Calendar Sayings — Traditional folk weather/calendar lore for today
• National Holidays — Public holidays, weekends, upcoming-holiday lookahead, and active/upcoming seasonal periods (e.g. Advent, Lent)
• Moon Phase — Locally calculated phase, symbol, name, and age in days, plus moonrise/moonset
• Sunrise & Sunset — Locally calculated from configurable coordinates (default: Budapest), plus offline city search and up to 3 additional cities with local time / UTC offset
• Equinox & Solstice — Countdown to the next seasonal event
• Western Zodiac — Sign with Unicode symbol
• Chinese Zodiac — Year animal and element
• Name Days — Today plus up to 10 days lookahead, optional two-column layout (Hungarian, German, English, French, Spanish, Italian datasets)
• Alternate Calendars — Julian, Hebrew, Islamic, and Persian date display
• Wikipedia (opt-in, internet required) — On-this-day events/births/deaths and article of the day, with rotation, caching, and automatic English fallback
• Appearance — Configurable icon size, text scale, and background opacity

Available in Hungarian, German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Note to users and developers

This desklet was created with the support of AI technologies.

Note to localizers

Translations use standard Gettext .po files in files/calendarium@kami911/po/. To compile translations:

cd /path/to/cinnamon-spices-desklets
./cinnamon-spices-makepot calendarium@kami911

To add a new UI language:

1. Run cinnamon-spices-makepot calendarium@kami911
2. Create po/XX.po based on po/calendarium@kami911.pot

Contributing Name Days

To add name day data for a new language, open a pull request with:

1. files/calendarium@kami911/data/namedays/XX.json — map of "MM-DD": ["Name1", …] entries
2. A new option added to the nameday-locale key in settings-schema.json

Note: Do not edit files inside the installed desklet directory directly — those changes will be overwritten the next time the desklet is updated.

Contributing Traditional Month Names

To add traditional month names for a new language, open a pull request with:

1. A new xx: […] array added to Localization.TRADITIONAL_MONTHS in lib/localization.js
2. A new option added to the traditional-lang key in settings-schema.json

Note: Do not edit files inside the installed desklet directory directly — those changes will be overwritten the next time the desklet is updated.

License

GPL-3.0