> > Why does the week view always start from the beginning of the week > > Because that's what a week is.
Uh.. "week" is commonly defined as "a period of seven successive days", but OK, some different cultural overtones are present in different parts of the world (e.g., afaik there is no English word for "a 24h period", like there is in Swedish, Finnish and a number of other languages, and things like that tends to shift how people view things), so let's call it something different then. > I'd find it very confusing if the columns for days jumped around all > the time. I'm quite sure you wouldn't. First of all that jumping around "all the time" would be only once a day, and it wouldn't exactly "jump around", just move one day forward at midnight. Second, something has to jump around once a day anyway. I'd much rather have "today" not "jump around", which it does now. (Note that you only want the default view to start from "today" or "yesterday", but when you start browsing the previous or upcoming weeks you'd rather have it centered on the week, possibly also showing the end of the previous week and the beginning of the following week.) Also, while I haven't done proper usability studies in the matter I have watched people's reactions when they first start using an interface like this and I've never seen anyone find it confusing. Sure it'd be possible to make the UI confusing by not making a thicker line between Sunday and Monday (or wherever your week-break is), or by not having Sunday (and maybe Saturday) in a slightly different color, or by leaving out the day headers (i.e., "Mon", "Tue", etc.), but you'd really have to try to make it bad for it to become bad usability-wise. > You want a view for "the next seven days", which I agree is very > useful, but not all the time. Or even most of the time, for me, > because my daily cycle is very week-based, and it's natural to view > it that way. Because every Sunday evening you always organize your past week, and really don't even want to know what's up on Monday or in the upcoming week in general? ;-) Seriously, I don't believe you for a fraction of a second. Since it's not even remotely unclear where the week starts and ends with either interface the only difference is that with the current system you see more of the past than of the future half of the time, whereas with the one I'm suggesting you trade past days for future ones. So, since I don't believe that you need to see (or organize) past events more often than future ones I also don't believe that the current view would be more useful for you most of the time. I certainly don't believe that most people would find the current view more useful even 5% of the time. Also, with the interface I suggest there is no reason why the display would have to show only 7 days. Just put as many days as fits on the screen, possibly having days without events taking up less space and days with lots of concurrent events using more space. Simply put, I just don't think you've thought this through, and your comments indicate that you've never used a "week" view like the one I described. (Or if you have then it must have been made by a complete moron if he or she has managed to make it hard to get a clear overview of the (rest of the) week, or unclear where the week starts or ends, or which day is which.) Regards, Marcus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "chandler-dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-dev
