[Chandler-dev] Re: [Design] Performance issues to concentrate on in alpha3?

[Priscilla Chung]

I just want to ditto everything Ted just said, except that I'm  
running Chandler release 0.7 Alpha2 on my 12" G4 laptop. ;)

-Priscilla

On Jun 8, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> I do all of these things on a regular basis.  I have 5 calendars in  
> my sidebar and I definitely switch between them.  Sometimes I need  
> to add an event to the office calendar, other times to my personal  
> work calendar.   I am switching calendars a lot.
>
> With 5 calendars in the sidebar,  The screen is often over full  
> with events -- even though I am running on large (1920 x 1440)  
> monitor with an enlarged Chandler window -- so I am often  
> activating and deactivating calendars using the checkboxes.
>
> I also change the view regularly because the meetings are a week or  
> two ahead of today's date.
>
> In short, all three of these situations happen regularly for me.   
> And they happen after I rerun Chandler, and they happen the second,  
> third, and 10th time that I do them.
>
> Additionally, double clicking to create an event is very slow, and  
> I frequently find that I have created two events because I thought  
> that the mouse didn't click or something like that.
>
> I also find the the performance of syncinng (no surprise) is a  
> usability barrier.
>
> This is all from my experience with the Intel Mac build.
>
> Ted
>