[Design] Dashboard confusing, don't know how to get calendar view

[Mimi Yin]

+1

I heartily agree that this is the right design. After discussing it  
briefly with Philippe, I think this would address some of his  
concerns as well. The design we have today is a compromise in the  
face of limited resources and limited time. As a result, a view  
selector that is independent of the App Area has been relegated to  
our long list of 'right designs that we can't do for Beta'.

Some of the things we would need to make the view selector design  
work include:

+ Custom toolbar across the top of the sidebar, summary and detail  
view panes.
+ Split pane view (a la iCal) with the ability to display a summary  
table view and a calendar view at the same time.

Mimi

On Sep 6, 2006, at 6:50 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> Hi Heikki:
>
> The latest design spec says that Calendar View is only shown for  
> user collections.
>
> Personally, my preference would be to be able to see any collection  
> (or combination of collections) through any view, i.e. let the user  
> choose the view.
>
> John
>
> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>> I am somewhat confused about the new dashboard and default view. I  
>> look
>> at the toolbar and see that calendar is selected, and I see (and can
>> create) more events, yet I don't see the calendar view. I look at  
>> View
>> menu, which has the Calendar entry selected. Looking through the  
>> other
>> menus I have no idea how to get a calendar view.
>>
>> The only reason why I actually know calendar view works and how to  
>> get
>> to it was by reading John's checkins comments where he mentioned that
>> you need to create a collection. And that still does not show the
>> dashboard items in the calendar view.
>>
>> And now that I have a collection of my own and the dashboard,  
>> clicking
>> between them switches between table view and calendar view even  
>> though
>> both show events.
>>
>> I am not sure what would be the best way to change this, but the  
>> current
>> situation feels like a wrong approach.
>>
>> I think I would expect a PIM to start with a calendar view.
>>
>> I also think that Dashboard acts so differently from all the other
>> collections in the sidebar that I don't think it should be in the
>> sidebar at all. I think it should be a new button on the toolbar.
>>
>>
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