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

[Mimi Yin]

Thanks for putting up the sketch Priscilla. (Long live Hello Kitty) I  
think we should definitely address personalization, perhaps we should  
send out a survey to ask people how they personalize paper-based  
calendars, notebooks, etc.

I've added another sketch to that page, along with an analysis of the  
problem:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
BackgroundCurrentWeek#ColorStrip


Analysis of the problem:

Hard to tell from looking at the calendar canvas if you're on "This  
week", "Some future week", "Some week in the past"
Understanding when it's NOT this week is as important as knowing when  
it IS this week (aka the LACK of a visual cue for when it's NOT this  
week may not be enough to alert the user.)
Distinguishing between past and future is important as well, but not  
as important as the distinction between "This week" v. "Not this week"
If we do use color to convey Past, Present, Future, the colors should  
match the Triage Status colors for Done, Now and Later.
Challenges

Don't want to obscure, be obscured by or compete with busy event  
lozenges on the calendar canvas

On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:32 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:

> 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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