I know this is an old post, but was this defect ever fixed? I have an MVC datepicker which is initialized like this...
@(Html.Kendo().DatePicker()
.Name("DateOfBirth")
.Start(CalendarView.Decade)
.Depth(CalendarView.Month)
.Value(""))
The calendar still starts at the default Month view. Since this is a Date of Birth field, it makes more sense for the user to pick the Year, then the Month, then the Day. If there's a way I can accomplish this, please let me know. I can open a new thread if needed, but decided to post on this one because it tops google searches already so it would be useful to have the answer right here, and the last answer was just "It's a defect, we're working on it".