[Design] Re: [Cosmo] Date Picker

[Mimi Yin]

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8396

I am going to move this discussion over to the design list as we are  
definitely in design territory now. (Thread on Cosmo list: http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/004860.html)

Bobby showed me the dojo date picker and I think with some tweaks,  
it'd be a good add-on. (I think ultimately we still want better data  
validation and/or natural language parsing so that users can use the  
quick entry field to schedule events, etc...but this looks like a  
lower cost, more immediate solution to the problem of entering dates.)

I think however we want invest in a few workflow tweaks and customize  
the picker widget a bit.

1. Auto-fill the date/time fields with today's date: https:// 
bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10962

2. Add the date/time picker to the detail view *and* the go-to-date  
field.
3. Get rid of the AM/PM radio buttons in the detail view (yayy!!)
4. Mimi to specify CSS improvements to date picker widget
5. Make it so date picker automatically drops down when user clicks  
into date/time field (IOW, no date picker icon!)
6. Increase the default font-size
7. Get rid of the extra (small arrow) navigation
8. Make it possible for the user to manually edit the date/time fields

Given all of this work, not sure where this functionality should land  
in the schedule. It seems like at the very least, we can do #1 right  
away?

Here's the screenshot Bobby sent me of the date picker as it is by  
default:

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Mimi

On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 10/3/07, Aparna Kadakia <aparna at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>
>> I am in the habit of taking quick notes and then stamping those as
>> events and tasks as needed.
>
> me too. every calendar system i use has some variant of the quick
> entry field. of course, most of those let me type dates and times into
> the quick entry field, but i could live without that if adding the
> dates and times in the DV wasn't so horrible.
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