On Jun 28, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote: Please see my notes inline: On Jun 28, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
I may be an edge case here, but I currently have calendars from 3 different servers in my Chandler, so account information is useful to me in recalling what came from where.
True, but I'm still questioning do you usually recognize your collection by the 'collection name' or by what server it comes from?
Oh, no disagreement that the primary way of recognizing a collection is by name.
In regards to your comment, '3 different servers in my Chandler', I agree there should some sort of 'supplementary' information, just not what's currently there which is the 'Description'. The 'Description' name can be changed in the 'Accounts' dialog so you can pretty much label it anything you want it to be. (See attached screenshot w/ no photoshop tricks, the 'Sharing account' was renamed in Chandler. Question: Which collection is this office calendar from? iCal or Chandler, can you tell? And how?)
Based on the picture, I can't tell.
Again to my last point: + Another way to tell where a collection is shared might be to describe the server that hosts the collection. ie. The server name and path that is not editable by the user in 'Accounts'. iCal server at Mac.com or Cosmo server at Cosmo-demo.osafoundation.org. This information is useful, however once again, displaying this type of information may be more useful for the advanced users; a user who would understand the difference of collections being hosted on different severs.
Yes, we should provide the user with information to which 'server' the collection is stored on. Though to get to this point, Mimi and I are going to sit down and work out an 'ideal' solution–which hopefully will be the least amount of work for releasing Chandler's beta.
Having said that of course, I welcome suggestions for a better solution then what is there currently. Or if your opinion is that everything 'looks fine by me', that's fair too.
As long as that information is available somewhere -- even under an "advanced" tab, I would be fine.
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