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

[Priscilla Chung]

I too have had the same experience. (On iCal AND on my paper New Yorker 
calendar.)

I like the watermark idea. I was wondering if most people have their 
appointments during the day, is there may be a way to put it off to the 
side, so one could still see the watermark perhaps? Even if it's blocked 
by a few events, as long as it's in the peripheral vision maybe it's ok? 
I would have included a sketch but the file was too big, so please view 
it here: 
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/BackgroundCurrentWeek

I'm guessing there are issues with transparencies, so I won't touch it. 
Though while I was in design mode I couldn't resist a HK-fied version. 
Just thinking about the personalization element is huge, and yet is put 
on the back burner for so many reasons (which I completely understand).

But suspend your arguments and just think how people could personalize 
in addition to 'This Week', you could add clip art, comics, or add text: 
Priscilla's Calendar, or keep it default, and have nothing at all.

The other more simplified way of indication is to rethink the background 
colors in the week ahead/behind. Change the week ahead/behind background 
color to a light gray, maybe today's date as light blue?? Just a thought.

-Priscilla


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.
>
> 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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