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

[Sheila Mooney]

Yes, with a busy calendar you wouldn't really see the watermark. Even  
if you saw part of it, with all the various colors it wouldn't really  
stand out.

When I continually used to create events on the wrong day/week in  
iCal I got in the habit of glancing at the mini cal first to see what  
week I am in before creating events. Seeing the blue highlight for  
today was an easy way for me to check I was in the right week. Maybe  
we should consider trying to use the mini cal by highlighting this  
week in the mini cal a different color or making "today" more obvious.


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On Mar 17, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Alec Flett wrote:

>
>>
>> Did anyone else had a similar experience?
>>
> I have this, even as an infrequent user...
>> 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.
>>
> Here's kind of a wacky idea - what if the week "name" was sort of  
> watermarked onto the background in very large (i.e. 50pt font)  
> light grey text? We could center it no matter where the window was  
> actually scrolled to. See attached... I don't know if the week name  
> would be "This week" or "3/12 - 3/18" or what.. if we want to get  
> fancy, we could even make next week say "Next week" and last week  
> say "Last week"
>
> The only bummer would be that for busy calendars the watermarking  
> would obviously be mostly obscured.
>
> not sure if its a good final idea, but perhaps mimi can come up  
> with a variation that makes more sense. :)
>
> Alec
> <watermark-week.png>
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