[Design] Potential hitch with event lozenge visual syntax

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Jeffrey, see below...

On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Mimi,
>
> In your last picture of event lozenges
> (http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-May/ 
> 004780.html),
> there are no D-shaped events.  The D-shape signals (well, the  
> absence of
> the D) seem to have been replaced with FYI/@time/anytime color
> inversion, but I wanted to make sure that was right.
Yup

>
> Also, do you care about the order of the other-collections swatches?

Yup. Want to make sure the colors that are next to each other are  
contrasty enough. Users can always change it of course, but OOTB, it  
should be optimized for contrast.

Do you need an ordering now? Or is that something I can futz around  
with in the config file.

>
> What should happen when there isn't enough room to display all the  
> swatches?

In the menu? When would that happen?

>
> When should the timezone abbreviation appear?  Presumably never when
> timezones aren't turned on, otherwise always display abbreviations
> unless the event doesn't have one (floating or all day or anytime)?

I think only when they're different from the timezone assigned to the  
calendar canvas. It's a call-out to indicate that the tz is  
different. The text itself will be too small for most people to  
actually decipher what tz it is.

>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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