Sorry for not responding earlier.
This all makes good sense.
However, the way things work right now, even after basic timezone
support has been added is that since we don't yet have the concept of
user preferred timezones, or the ability to display within a
particular timezone, the UI displays events on the canvas in whatever
timezone your browser happens to be in. Events w/o a timezone float,
but there is no facility to make the ALL events float (i.e. turning
TZ support off) or to choose what timezone to view you calendar in.
Can we defer those features for the next release, or do you think
they are a priority for this one? Again the features to be deferred
would be:
1) Turning off/on timezone support
2) Choosing what timezone to view events in on the canvas.
What we will have in 0.6 no matter what:
1) timezone infrastructure work done
2) Editing timezones for events in the Cosmo UI
Bobby
On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
I sent this out last week and wanted to follow up if anyone had any
last comments.
Thanks, -Priscilla
On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
Mimi send out a summary of the time-zones on the Cosmo UI: http://
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-November/005724.html
I just wanted to pull it out of the 'Login-related workflows
update' thread to confirm the direction we're taking:
*Not Logged-in Cosmo*
+ The calendar canvas will be viewed in floating time-zone (ie. if
you have 2 events at 2:00pm PST and 2:00pm EST, they both show up
at 2:00pm)
+ Clicking on an individual event will display the time-zone
information it was created in the detail view (ie. PST, EST etc).
*Logged-into Cosmo*
+ If time-zone support is turned off, the calendar canvas displays
events in floating time. Selecting on individual events displays
no information about time-zones in the detail view. There are no
labels for the calendar canvas, the collection and for the
individual item.
+ If time-zone support is turned on, then the user will make a
selection from the pull down (where Floating is one of the
options). Based on the selection, the events will adjust
accordingly on the calendar canvas. When selecting on the
individual events the time-zone information will appear in the
detail view.
*Note: When you subscribe to a collection and add it to your Cosmo
account:
*If time-zone support is turned on*
+ Based on the selection, the events will adjust accordingly on
the calendar canvas. When selecting on the individual events the
time-zone information will appear in the detail view based on the
time-zone it was created in.
*If time-zone support is turned off*
+ The events appear positioned on the canvas in floating time.
Selecting on individual events displays no information about time-
zones in the detail view. There are no labels for the calendar
canvas, the collection and for the individual item.
Understandably, this last case (if TZ is turned off) may not be as
fluid as we'd like, especially when you just saw the time-zone
before subscribing. I'm just going to file a bug to revisit the
time-zone issue for future.
-Priscilla
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