[Cosmo-dev] Date Picker

[Mimi Yin]

What's not clear to me is why users aren't clicking on the calendar  
canvas to add events.

+ Not enough visual feedback that the calendar canvas is interactive?
+ Not enough hours are displayed, you need to scroll a lot to get  
events onto the canvas in the right time slot?

Apple iCal does just fine with an interactive calendar canvas +  
pretty good date/time auto-formatting in the date entry fields.

I think we all agree that we need to improve user experience for  
creating new events (to drive adoption). It's more a question of how  
to go about doing that. The detail view is overcrowded as it is and I  
think we can't underestimate the cost of adding more widgetry to the UI.

So one question I have about this dojo widget:
+ Does it require adding a button/graphic to the UI? or can it just  
drop down when you click in the date entry fields?
+ Is it fast? There's nothing more annoying than a date picker that  
takes a long time to pop-up.

Mimi

On Oct 3, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Randy Letness wrote:

> Well, what we have now kind of sucks, so anything, even if it looks  
> different than the rest of the app would be an improvement and  
> would increase adoption.   I vote for putting something in there  
> now so we can get it in sooner and we can talk about the best  
> solution and tweak later.  Otherwise I still have to type  
> '01/01/2008 11:00' am when trying to stamp a note as an event and  
> will probably not try to do it again after getting frustrated.
>
> -Randy
>
> Ted Leung wrote:
>> It's not clear to me that we need a full fledged date picker.  I  
>> do think that we need improved date entry.   Maybe you and Mimi  
>> should talk about what the best solution would be, since a date  
>> picker would need some design anyway.   In the meantime, I am  
>> going to start moving more bugs from Future into Cosmo 1.0,  
>> hopefully later today.  I'll be working from this list from Mimi:  
>> <http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/OneDotZeroServerBugs>
>>
>> Ted
>>
>> On Oct 2, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Bobby Rullo wrote:
>>
>>> My bug list for 0.7.Future (which I guess will get moved over to  
>>> 0.8 or 0.9?) is pretty low, so I was thinking of taking a stab at  
>>> doing a date (and time) picker, but wasn't sure if anyone was  
>>> already working on that.
>>>
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