On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 18:37 -0400, Anna Marie Dirks wrote: > > > In the case where the calendar selection affects the task selection as > > well, you select "Evolution" once (assuming you have an "Evolution" > > calendar of course) and you are done. > > See, so I think you've hit upon the main thing that I do not understand > about your proposal. You seem to be convinced that having a one to one > correlation between calendar folders and task folders is the way to go. > Can you explain a bit about how you arrived at this conclusion? > > I guess that because we currently don't require a one-to-one mapping > between calendar folders and tasks folders, the idea seems a little > strange to me. I am imagining a scenario like the following: > > 1. I am planning a wedding. I create a calendar called "Wedding > Planning" in which I schedule all of the flower-selection meetings, > cake-tasting appointments, dress fittings, etc. All of my appointments > and meetings go in this folder. > > 2. There are literally thousands of tasks associated with planning a > wedding, so I make a few different related tasks folders -- > "Invitations" (where I keep track of who all I've sent invites to), > "Bridesmaids" (where I keep track of getting dresses, shoes, bouquets, > etc to all of the bridesmaids) > "Honeymoon" (where I keep track of booking hotels, finding flights, > etc.) > > In this case, it seems logical to me that I don't want a one-to-one > mapping between calendar folders and task folders, because I have so > many tasks that I need more finely grained grouping of them than I do > for the wedding prep appointments. > well, there is always categories for doing this fine-grained grouping, so there is really no need to have different folders.
> > In the case where they are separate settings, instead, you have to > > select it twice (once with the nice large side bar, and once with the > > more awkward option menu ;-)). So I suspect it would be more handy if > > you had it the other way. > > Maybe... > > But on the flip side, if you go the integrated route and you start out > working in your inbox, then you have to do a bit more work to get the > point of being able to view your complete task list + preview pane. In > other words, it seems like that path involves an ease-of-use tradeoff > too. > maybe we could have the task list on the calendar be something like what there is currently in the summary. Maybe there could just be a setting to specify the tasks folders to use for that list (not per calendar folder, but per calendar view)? cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
