Comment 20 for bug 387573

Nick Buchanan is correct, I think, that expected behavior would be for the calendar applet to close in the same way other drop-down applets do. However, the calendar is unlike other applets in that (as Textureglitch says) it is often useful to have it open while referring to information in other windows, which may require switching between and scrolling through those other windows.

So, I suggest that the calendar have a dedicated button or menu item for opening it in a window by itself, and that once that is implemented, the drop-down calendar applet should close automatically when you click outside it. But that would be, as Bryce Harrington suggested, a feature quite a bit larger than a paper cut. And until that is implemented, I think changing the current behavior would aggravate as many people as it pleases.

(BTW, please don't use the Incomplete status unless a bug report is missing information on how to reproduce the problem or whether it has been fixed.)