| I think the hard part is figuring out where we would put this view selector...making it look nice and integrated with the chrome, withough getting the 'too many toolbars' feeling.
Adding a view selector also wouldn't necessarily change the design in the sidebar. It would simply improve it :o) On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:54 PM, John Anderson wrote: 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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