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

[Sheila Mooney]

On Mar 17, 2006, at 12:57 PM, 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?

Yes, I also do this all the time (same thing when I was using iCal).

>
> 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.

I also like the idea of some kind of visual indicator to orient  
yourself a bit better.

>
> 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)
>
> - 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?
>>
>> Sheila
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