[Design] Month View and Overlays

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Greg,

Yes, I can see lots of use cases where more flexibility around  
defining what weeks you see at a time would be important. You should  
be able to add and subtract weeks depending on what you're doing,  
essentially zooming in and out of the calendar.

I imagine our first pass at the month view will be pretty basic, but  
what you're describing is definitely a good direction to head in.

Mimi

On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> I'm forwarding the following suggestion from Greg Noel:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Greg Noel <GregNoel at tigris.org>
>> Date: September 25, 2007 6:36:03 PM PDT
>> To: Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Design] Month View and Overlays
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:01 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Month View for Desktop and Web applications and Overlays for the  
>>> Web has come up ... they are definitely on the short list of  
>>> feature enhancements to be implemented as soon as possible.
>>
>> May I put in a bid for a mixed weekly/monthly view?  It would be  
>> far more useful than either a weekly or monthly view in isolation.
>>
>> It goes like this:  In the worst case, the month view has to have  
>> six rows.  The view I want looks like a month view with six rows,  
>> except that I want to combine three of those rows into something  
>> else.  It may only be usable on a bigger screen, but for those of  
>> us who have one (I have a Macintosh Cinema Display), it would be a  
>> boon.
>>
>> The initial row is "last week" then the next three rows are a  
>> compressed "weekly" view.  The last two rows are then "next week"  
>> and "the week after next."  I find that I rarely look at any other  
>> times: I might look back to the prior week to remind myself about  
>> something, and I'm almost always scheduling events within the next  
>> three weeks, so this view would cover 99-44/100 percent of the  
>> times I have to deal with.
>>
>> If you are careful when you build the month view, all the pieces  
>> would be available, so implementing this view should be simple.   
>> And if my use pattern is common (which I think it is), I suspect  
>> you'll find that it's the most common view by far.
>>
>> Tks,
>> -- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru
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