Hello all, I'm currently working on adding timezones and locations now that the appointments and tasks are out of the way. There is an issue with how timezones work, especially between evolution and the indicator and I wanted to bring it up for discussion here.
Here's a use cases to demonstrate the issue; Case: Bob creates an appointment via evolution, he creates that appointment at home in London, the appointment is for 1 week in the future when Bob is in New York. The appointment time is 9:00am Result: Bobs appointment appears at 2pm when the timezone changes due to either user interaction or geoclue location Reason: Evolution doesn't (by default) display the Timezone field in the Appointment editor. Bob didn't set the timezone for the appointment to New York so the Timezone was London for the appointment, the local clock changed to New York time but the appointment stayed on london time. - To solve this problem I propose that we change the default behaviour in evolution to display the Timezone field in the appointment editor. Also add a helpful indication to the appointment item which is shown when the appointment is in a different timezone. e.g. changing the appointment time to "2:00pm BST" for items in a different timezone and, "9:00am" for items in the local timezone. -- I also want to propose a solution to the "What should happen when you select one of the alternate timezone items in the menu.". Unresolved item; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#Unresolved%20issues As the user is probably expecting the timezone to change when it's selected I propose that we use a radio button to indicate the selected item. This is inline with the other indicators and I've written code to do this pretty easily in the menu. -- For the menu items for the locations/timezones, I suggest we always retain the one we've changed from, at least during the current session. So for instance, as Bob lands in New York he has two timezones in the menu, London and New York, which are not necessarily pre-configured to be there. London may disappear after a reboot, but that should have been enough of a transition period. -- Something else I'm having to think about is whether or not the indicator is the correct place to be acting on a location change as it should be possible when the clock isn't visible in the menu from what I can gather? Maybe there needs to be something else to handle this particular change? and the indicator is merely a consumer of information from that something else. --- Comments & Suggestions welcome, if you're hoping to test the appointments indicator my branch with latest code is being pushed here; lp:~karl-qdh/ubuntu/natty/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime.withappointments unfortunately we don't have coloured icons because evolution source colour stuff is currently broken deep inside of evolution. And there are some other minor bugs that need squishing. BR, K _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
