Re: [Design] Dashboard confusing, don't know how to get calendar view

[Mimi Yin]

Thank you Heikki for your feedback. I can certainly understand why the sidebar/app bar design as it exists right now is confusing. There are a couple of things to keep in mind however that might clear up some of the confusion: 1. The sidebar/appbar is not complete right now. The plan is to ship OOTB with 2 user-defined collections turned on. e.g. Home and Work. 2. As far as we could tell with the way most people used their calendars, there is no such thing as a definitive set of "mine calendars" that never changed. Instead, people either had a single calendar that they put everything into; OR they had a few calendars that they turned on and off depending on what they're doing. Very few people had more than 5 'personal' calendars. Most people had fewer than 2.  3. Dogfooders preferred to overlay their individual calendars as opposed to overlaying their Dashboard calendar with their non-personal calendars. [  ] My calendar [x] Home [x] Work [x] OSAF Office Calendar As opposed to... [x] My calendar [  ] Home [  ] Work [x] OSAF Office Calendar 4. Users will not have to regularly overlay their calendars to see their 'complete' calendar. According to the design, overlays should be preserved in the Calendar App. They are preserved when you move to a different App area. They are preserved when you click on an OOTB collection in the Calendar App area. You should never find yourself constantly overlaying lots of collections in order to restore your 'desired, default' calendar view. We discussed some of these issues in June when I originally put forth a proposal for design changes to the sidebar: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-June/004818.html Proposal for Next actions: + Add in 2 user-defined collections, OOTB: Home and Work. + Launch the app with the Work collection selected. Mimi On Sep 6, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Bryan Stearns wrote: I also don't understand the new model. At least, I'd expect to see all my events on a calendar if "Dashboard" and "Calendar" were selected - is there a way to see a complete calendar without manually selecting all my collections? Heikki Toivonen wrote: I am somewhat confused about the new dashboard and default view. I look at the toolbar and see that calendar is selected, and I see (and can create) more events, yet I don't see the calendar view. I look at View menu, which has the Calendar entry selected. Looking through the other menus I have no idea how to get a calendar view. The only reason why I actually know calendar view works and how to get to it was by reading John's checkins comments where he mentioned that you need to create a collection. And that still does not show the dashboard items in the calendar view. And now that I have a collection of my own and the dashboard, clicking between them switches between table view and calendar view even though both show events. I am not sure what would be the best way to change this, but the current situation feels like a wrong approach. I think I would expect a PIM to start with a calendar view. I also think that Dashboard acts so differently from all the other collections in the sidebar that I don't think it should be in the sidebar at all. I think it should be a new button on the toolbar. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design

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