[Design] [Sum] Preview area

[Mimi Yin]

Yes, I agree the way the mini-cal interacts with the summary pane is  
another big source of inconsistency. Is that something that's hard to  
do? Constrain the results you see in the summary table based on  
what's selected in the mini-cal?

On Apr 14, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> *Proposals*
>>
>>    * Current design: In the Calendar app, the preview pane is  
>> stuck showing Today's events. In the other App areas, it shows  
>> events for whatever day is selected in the mini-cal.
>>    * Alternate design 1: Make the Calendar app consistent with the  
>> other App areas. Add extra visual feedback in the mini-cal so the  
>> user can select a day within a week...when they're in the week  
>> view, so the user can control which day of the week they want to  
>> see in the Preview pane.
> I think that if we display the date clearly at the top of the  
> Preview, we do not need to visually mark the day in the minical.  
> That way we can also have the summary work also when in the  
> Calendar app. The whole problem we have right now is that the  
> minical is used to select the "current day" of the summary and the  
> "current week" of the calendar.
>
> So I'd choose a mash-up of Alternate design 1 and 2... :) i.e.:
> - allow the minical to be clicked to select a date anywhere. This  
> sets the date for the summary but doesn't add any markup in the  
> minical. Note that it also selects the week when in Calendar mode.
> - display the date at the top of the Preview
>>
>>    * Alternate design 2: In the Calendar app, we add a label:  
>> Today's events at the top of the Preview pane.
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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