[Design] [Scooby] Managing Calendar/Timezone

[Mimi Yin]

Many of the issues being hashed out on this thread are exactly the  
ones we discussed during 0.6 and finalized in January. Here is the  
thread in the list archive: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/ 
design/2006-January/003965.html

A few key things:

1. Not only do some people not care about timezones. They don't even  
want the calendar app to automatically assign their "home" timezone  
to the events they create. Instead, they manage timezones entirely in  
their head. Tuesday, I'm in New York, everything is in EST. Wednesday  
I'm in Chicago, everything is in Central time. And they want to be  
able to view their calendar like that. Unless we want to start  
supporting the ability to assign different timezones to different  
days of the week on the calendar, we need to have a 'No Timezones'  
option for users. This is what Chandler provides out of the box in  
the trunk build today.

2. Given that we need to display the calendar canvas' "timezone"  
somwhere on the calendar UI anyway...(otherwise, the user won't know  
what timezone the events are being displayed in) it makes sense to  
use the timezone display as the timezone picker as well. This is what  
Apple iCal does and what Chandler does today too. This makes changing  
timezones easy to access, but it doesn't require the user to deal  
with a pop-up every time they log into Scooby in a new timezone.

Mimi