One possibility that's easy to implement (at least easier than the
sidebar work we're doing for 0.7) is to put a "view selector" in the
summary view, perhaps at the top using a toolbar like we do for
stamping in the detail view. Each summary view would have it's own
selector so whenever you went to a particular summary view you'd get
the last view you chose.
John
Mimi Yin wrote:
+1
I heartily agree that this is the right design. After discussing
it briefly with Philippe, I think this would address some of his
concerns as well. The design we have today is a compromise in the face
of limited resources and limited time. As a result, a view selector
that is independent of the App Area has been relegated to our long list
of 'right designs that we can't do for Beta'.
Some of the things we would need to make the view selector
design work include:
+ Custom toolbar across the top of the sidebar, summary and
detail view panes.
+ Split pane view (a la iCal) with the ability to display a
summary table view and a calendar view at the same time.
Mimi
On Sep 6, 2006, at 6:50 PM, John Anderson wrote:
Hi Heikki:
The latest design spec says that Calendar View is only shown for user
collections.
Personally, my preference would be to be able to see any collection (or
combination of collections) through any view, i.e. let the user choose
the view.
John
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.
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