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

[Mimi Yin]

I think the hard part is figuring out where we would put this view  
selector...making it look nice and integrated with the chrome,  
withough getting the 'too many toolbars' feeling.

Adding a view selector also wouldn't necessarily change the design in  
the sidebar. It would simply improve it :o)

On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:54 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> 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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