[Chandler-dev] Re: [Design] Dashboard confusing, don't know how to get calendar view

[Mike Taylor]

In the same vein as Heikki's comments ...

I ran the latest Chandler with a fresh repository and noticed that My 
Calendar was now gone from the sidebar but the Collection menu still 
has "Share My Calendar".

On Sep 6, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> I am somewhat confused about the new dashboard and default view. I look
> at the toolbar and see that calendar is selected, and I see (and can
> create) more events, yet I don't see the calendar view. I look at View
> menu, which has the Calendar entry selected. Looking through the other
> menus I have no idea how to get a calendar view.
>
> The only reason why I actually know calendar view works and how to get
> to it was by reading John's checkins comments where he mentioned that
> you need to create a collection. And that still does not show the
> dashboard items in the calendar view.
>
> And now that I have a collection of my own and the dashboard, clicking
> between them switches between table view and calendar view even though
> both show events.
>
> I am not sure what would be the best way to change this, but the 
> current
> situation feels like a wrong approach.
>
> I think I would expect a PIM to start with a calendar view.
>
> I also think that Dashboard acts so differently from all the other
> collections in the sidebar that I don't think it should be in the
> sidebar at all. I think it should be a new button on the toolbar.
>
> -- 
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