[Design] SpinCycle's Major Dogfood Issues

[Alec Flett]

Hey Jim -
All your feedback lately has been very helpful. Its good to get many 
perspectives on what the "key" features of chandler are.. but I thought 
someone should address your two big concerns, so here goes:

Jim Sowers wrote:
>
> 1. Printing -- I know there are some Gant-chart contingencies here, 
> but it feels like printing is coming last. Need date headings, need 
> ability to print monthly, need ability to print locations, perhaps 
> parenthetically.
>
Printing just hasn't gotten the attention it deserves in the last year, 
mostly just because of priorities... it basically hasn't changed in over 
a year. But this is an area where I feel comfortable saying "hey, we're 
just a version 0.6 product!" :) We have a real owner for printing now 
(reid!) so I am sure it will be getting more attention in the future. We 
absolutely want to make sure that folks can get a usable paper calendar 
out of chandler.
> 2. Time Zones!!  Either I'm really missing something here, or OSAF 
> is.  I do have the ability to assign a time zone to an event.  But the 
> time zones do not show up in the event listing unless it is one that 
> is other than my default.  That makes sense.  Here is the BIG issue: 
> there does not seem to be a way to change the time zone I'm in from 
> within Chandler.
Did you notice the timezone drop-down widget in the calendar? its in the 
upper-right of the calendar view. It allows you to change the current 
timezone the calendar is in.

But rest assured, the importance of timezones has not been lost on us :) 
Timezones are a big priority for us - we really want to get it "right" 
for people who travel a lot. There are obviously "little" details like 
being in sync with the system timezone, but we've been recently more 
focused on in-chandler timezone features, like timezone display, 
floating timezones, and so forth. We also want to make sure that you can 
actually keep chandler's notion separate from the system timezone if you 
so desire.. some people like to keep their machine in a "home" timezone 
and move their calendar timezone around as they travel..

Hope that helps,

Alec

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