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

[John Anderson]

One possibility that's easy to implement (at least easier than the 
sidebar work we're doing for 0.7) is to put a "view selector" in the 
summary view, perhaps at the top using a toolbar like we do for stamping 
in the detail view. Each summary view would have it's own selector so 
whenever you went to a particular summary view you'd get the last view 
you chose.

John

Mimi Yin wrote:
> +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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