[Design] [D/f] 0.6.1 dogfood feedback

Katie Capps Parlante capps at osafoundation.org
Thu Feb 9 18:02:50 PST 2006


Sheila and Philippe said they'd start fining me a dollar every time they 
saw me using iCal instead of Chandler, so I finally started *really* 
dogfooding Chandler.

I have notes here:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/KatieParlante20060208

A couple highlights...

I'm using sharing to synchronize calendars between my mac laptop and two 
windows desktops. (Noted that this isn't completely in line with our 
target user). Using iCal, I just didn't have access to my calendar at my 
desktop, so its nice for me already.

I've found it useful to be able to sync with the office calendar and 
have it be "not mine". I moved several office calendar events into my 
work calendar, which really works nicely for me. Being able to edit the 
office calendar is useful, and having some of the office calendar events 
  show up as mine is also useful.

Receiving tickets and subscribing to a calendar was pretty painless, but 
creating the ticket and managing it was a bit more painful.

A couple of suggestions/ideas...

+ When setting up a share and generating tickets, could we create a note 
in the repository with the ticket in the body? It would then be easy to 
stamp the note as an email and mail it to someone, or just save it for 
future reference. This would have cut out the step of opening up 
notepad, which would be cool.

+ It would be cool to be able to share a bunch of collections at once.

+ In my use case, I actually would have liked to share the colors of the 
collections. Could this be an option?

+ Could we put today's date in the mini calendar, instead of "today"?

+ I found the sharing dialog confusing. Could we move the "sign up for 
account" button away from the form fields?

Cheers,
Katie




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