[Design] GUI: Callendar - Sharing

[Davor Cubranic]

Philippe Bossut wrote:

> One wacky "vertical" idea: use an adaptive high for the hour slot, 
> wide in the main viewed time range and compressed on the two other 
> ends. So you'd always see the entire range of the day but the hours 
> that are not centered on would be compressed. You could move the 
> "center" using the scroll bar.

I like it, and I don't think it's that crazy. :-) There have actually 
been a few research papers that explored fisheye views in calendars, 
especially on PDA-type devices. I'm not sure if any made it into actual 
products, but their experiences could come in useful if something like 
it was seriously considered for Chandler:

    * Bederson, Czerwinski & Robertson. A Fisheye Calendar Interface for
      PDAs: Providing Overviews for Small Displays
      (http://www.cs.umd.edu/Library/TRs/CS-TR-4368/CS-TR-4368.pdf)
    * Furnas, The Fisheye Calendar System.
      (http://www.si.umich.edu/~furnas/Papers/FisheyeCalendarTM.pdf)