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

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Greg,

I agree that we should display as much data as possible. This  
proposal is mostly for expediency's sake because it's additional work  
to figure out what to display if events span multiple days, some of  
which are filled up with timed events and some of which are otherwise  
empty.

We want to get some kind of month view out to users as quickly as  
possible!

Mimi

On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Greg Noel wrote:

> 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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