[Design] [D/f] Background for current week

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Philippe Bossut wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was reviewing bug 4610 (see here under attached) when it struck me 
> that I often get lost looking at the calendar canvas: when you have like 
> me a lot of recurring meetings, every week looks somewhat the same and 
> it did happen to me more than once to create an event on the wrong week.
> 
> Did anyone else had a similar experience?
> 
> So here's an idea : have a special background (not too crude but visible 
> enough to be identified) in the calendar canvas for the current week.

Yes, I have this problem all the time (I had the same problem in iCal).

We already have a different background for "today" -- less pronounced on 
the mac. Indeed it is perhaps worthwhile to experiment with other visual 
cues.

> Also, on the summary preview, as a dogfooder myself, I have to say that 
> having the day summary always on saved me several times when the main 
> calendar canvas was off by a couple of weeks. So I think we should 
> maintain its behavior unchanged with may be a title to make it clear (as 
> suggested by Mimi in bug 4610)

+1

> - Philippe
> 
> Sheila Mooney wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4610
>>
>> I noticed this is scheduled for alpha 2. I propose we postpone any 
>> work on this for now. When we originally released 0.6, some people 
>> thought it was confusing that the preview area event list was fixed to 
>> show today's events. This means that if you move around the calendar 
>> the events in the preview area do not change. This actually saved me 
>> today (remembered my father-in-laws birthday). We have also received 
>> some other feedback from others than have found this useful (Katie, 
>> Ted). Perhaps we should leave it as is for now. The only change I 
>> would make is to maybe display more events than 5 (or have some 
>> preference).
>>
>> Does this sound reasonable with everyone?

If we decide the current behavior is the one we want, I'd close it 
instead of postponing it and leaving it around -- or change the bug to 
"add title", implement that and close it.

Cheers,
Katie