Hi Philippe, I realized that I misinterpreted your suggestion.
Just to clarify: In the Calendar app, the mini-cal selection
switches between both day and week view.
I also feel pretty strongly that if the Preview Pane changes what it
displays in tandem with the Mini-cal selection, we need to provide
visual feedback of the "Selected date" in the Mini-cal itself.
Otherwise I think it will be hard for users to understand the
relationship between the two, especially because the Preview Pane
sits above the Mini-cal, which implies that the Preview Pane controls
the Mini-cal.
This also doesn't address the issue that while the Preview Pane
behavior is confusing to users because it is inconsistent, all of the
Dogfood feedback on the list has been in favor of keeping the Preview
Pane centered on Today's events.
This says to me that we should fix the inconsistency, but keep the
Preview Pane centered on Today's events, even when the user is
clicking around in the Mini-cal.
The root of the inconsistency is that in the Calendar App, the Mini-
cal is used to "constrain your view". Whereas in the other Apps
areas, the Mini-cal is used to control the Preview Pane.
I added a 4th alternate design which is to basically unify this
behavior across all App areas. Use the Mini-cal to constrain the data
you see in the Summary pane (a la iPhoto). Basically as a way of
filtering your view based on Dates. The Preview Pane remains fixated
on Today's events. PLUS the option of using MouseOver in the MIni-cal
to change the Preview Pane view.
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/SummaryPreviewPane
Mimi
On Apr 14, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Yes, I agree the way the mini-cal interacts with the summary pane
is another big source of inconsistency. Is that something that's
hard to do? Constrain the results you see in the summary table
based on what's selected in the mini-cal?
On Apr 14, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi,
Mimi Yin wrote:
*Proposals*
* Current design: In the Calendar app, the preview pane is
stuck showing Today's events. In the other App areas, it shows
events for whatever day is selected in the mini-cal.
* Alternate design 1: Make the Calendar app consistent with
the other App areas. Add extra visual feedback in the mini-cal so
the user can select a day within a week...when they're in the
week view, so the user can control which day of the week they
want to see in the Preview pane.
I think that if we display the date clearly at the top of the
Preview, we do not need to visually mark the day in the minical.
That way we can also have the summary work also when in the
Calendar app. The whole problem we have right now is that the
minical is used to select the "current day" of the summary and the
"current week" of the calendar.
So I'd choose a mash-up of Alternate design 1 and 2... :) i.e.:
- allow the minical to be clicked to select a date anywhere. This
sets the date for the summary but doesn't add any markup in the
minical. Note that it also selects the week when in Calendar mode.
- display the date at the top of the Preview
* Alternate design 2: In the Calendar app, we add a label:
Today's events at the top of the Preview pane.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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