[Design] [Cosmo][Desktop] Month View Update

Greg Noel GregNoel at tigris.org
Fri Oct 19 14:09:02 PDT 2007


On Oct 18, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> + Limit all-day / anytime events to 2 per cell
> + Add ellipses above the all-day / anytime lozenges if there are  
> more than 2

I don't think this is a good idea.  Typically, my calendar tends to  
have timed events during the weekday, but untimed events during the  
weekend.  Forcing a hard limit (on either type) would limit the  
number of things the calendar can show.  There would have to be a  
strategy for dealing with a day with too many events, but that would  
happen less often if it was the sum of the timed and untimed events  
together instead of separately.

As an example, look at iCal.  It has untimed events in lozenges above  
any timed events in plain text.  There's no limit on either until the  
day is completely full, at which point it uses a very strange two- 
column display as a fallback.

Hope this helps,
-- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru


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