On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 20:57, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > > * it would be really nice to have an ETable displaying the list of > > appointments being shown, like mozilla-calendar does: > > > > http://primates.ximian.com/~rodrigo/shots/mozilla-calendar/event-list.png > > > > In your mockup, how would this fit? Could you add it please to see how > > it would look? > > Hm, I wonder how useful this would actually be? I mean, isnt the > calendar view the most useful to see your events in the timeline? > well, it is sometimes useful, when you've got a search that returns a lot of appointments. In that case, a list where you can easily find the appointment you're looking for is a nice help.
> Of course one can do a "list view" in addition to "day view" and "week > view" etc. I think Palm pilots have this in their calendar. > yes, now, with the ECalView thing, it would be really easy to do a EListView class based on it. > But is it really more useful than a normal calendar view? I'd like to > hear why you find it useful to understand better, then it is easier to > think about ways to represent it in the UI as well. > as I said, there are times when there are lots of appointments, and it is difficult to find the one you want in the day/week/month views. > > * also, as already noted, the categories are already identified by > > icons, so the folder bar should use icons instead of colors. Also, I > > find the categories there a bit redundant, since you can already filter > > by category in the search bar. Maybe we should just make the search bar > > allow users to filter by more than one category. > > > > Apart from this, it looks really nice. > > Colors are per-calendar. "Movie premiers" calendar you imported would be > assigned some color, your default calendar is another color etc. > > Because they will all be overlayed in the calendar view, it is useful to > have events from each calendar file be of the same color so you can tell > them apart by a glance. Looking for a company meeting? Easy when > "Evolution Team Calendar" on the intranet you imported has all its > events show as blue in your calendar. And your private calendar is > green, and "peoples birthdays" -calendar is yellow. > > The categories are separate from this. And I am thinking, are anyone > really using the category icons much? I never do that. Are they useful? > Not doubting it, but I want to hear if a lot of people use them..? > it is another way of filtering > *** NOTE *** > We also need to figure out how to define which calendar the event goes > to, when you add a new one. Maybe have a default one, and then a context > menu that lists all calendars you can write to as "Put event in... -> > list of calendars you have in your Evolution" > yes, I wass thinking we could have something like mozilla: http://primates.ximian.com/~rodrigo/shots/mozilla-calendar/task-editor.png which lets you select the calendar the event is in. I don't know though if it is a good idea to let the user change the calendar once the event has been created, but we definitely want to allow the user to select the calendar when creating a new item. cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
