Re: [Evolution-hackers] Marcus Bains Line in calendar

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:29 -0500, Thouis (Ray) Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:45:28 +0100, Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
> > I think keeping the line always is a sound default, though it would be
> > better if the line were less intrusive. My suggestion would be to not
> > draw the line in the time area, and to use bg[PRELIGHT] for the line
> > that gets drawn through the day views.
> 
> I like having both lines, because it allows me to find the day-view
> line without knowing what day it is.  If the day-view line were the
> only one, I'd definitely want the color to be configurable, as my
> personal preference is that it stand out.

Is there some way to conjoin the lines better then. The gap and color
difference is fairly distracting.

> If  whether to show the line is controlled by a hidden gconf key, the
> two lines could be enabled separately.  Someone editing the key
> directly isn't likely to be bothered by the extra option.  Going down
> that path a bit further, perhaps the colors of the line(s) should be
> hidden keys with reasonable defaults.

I'd prefer not to have a key for each part of the line, really. It's
just the gap and color difference that bug me. It stands out too much
from the rest of the application, which is not what we want really. We
want something to show that the current time is approximately "here",
rather than trying to get the user to use the calendar as a clock app.

-- dobey