On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 21:23, Anna Marie Dirks wrote: > > > You should put back the little recurrence preview calendar. It seems > > insignificant, but IMHO it really does make Evo's recurrence editor > > nicer to use than Outlook's. (And it's especially useful for > > "complex"/"imported" recurrences that can't be explained via the other > > widgets.) > > So, have imported recurrences ever worked, then? (My understanding is > that they have always been broken.) It would help me to know how > imported recurrences are set, if indeed they can be. > there are a few problems with some special recurrence settings in 1.4.x, in the file backend. I am working on fixing all those cases right now for 2.x, so we should expect all kinds of recurrences to work in 2.0
> > My thought with including them was that it made it clearer to the user > that it is *possible* to set start and end hours for an appointment. (If > you can't see them, then it is harder to know for certain whether or not > they exist.. no?) That said, we have to test this on humans anyway, so > I'll take care to measure reactions to this. > well, the 'All day event' check box makes that clear, doesn't it? > I'll tell you, Dan, this one is a can of worms which I'm not eager to > open. This feels to me like we're going to have find a balance between > absolute adherence to the ical spec, and creating a simple and usable > UI. > well, since we are supporting more and more backends, most of them using ical spec, I think we should have some way to view/edit events/tasks created in more complicated UIs. I agree that having it as easier as possible is a good goal, but we should also take into account that we are going to allow the modification of "weird" events/tasks via the connectors. cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
