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

[Alec Flett]

Priscilla Chung wrote:
>
> 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).
>
Just a side comment on implementation details: We can't get too 
complicated with transparency without some big performance hits (mostly 
because the only way to do anything with transparency is to draw 
whatever we want onto an internal image, apply transparency to the 
image, and then try to slap that image on top of whatever we want)

So if its something as simple as writing some text, that might be 
doable..I think we could come up with a way to do what you mocked up, 
though maybe not with the HK :)

We unfortunately can't do vertically oriented text easily, or I'd 
suggest maybe something along the legend to the left..

Alec



> 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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