Re: Request for comments on UI change (resend)

[rms39 columbia edu (Russell Steinthal)]

On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 14:11:58 EST, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

>My idea was to have a useful week view like the one in the Palm
>Pilot.  You have a grid with days in one axis and hours in another
>axis:
>
>	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
>08:00
>09:00
>10:00
>...
>16:00
>17:00
>
>Inside the grid you have bars that represent the time spans of
>days --- think of each day column as a little version of the full day
>view, with nicely laid-out bars.  

Hmm... Maybe it's my lack of a Palm Pilot which is speaking, but I'm 
having trouble visualizing this.  At least, I can see how you could 
see free/busy status from the bars, but is there enough room to 
actually show appointment information?

That's actually the problem the quick view is designed to address, 
seeing the text of appointments without needing to resize the window 
large enough so that, proportionally, each box is big enough to read 
all the information.

Or am I missing something?

(And in any case, the quick view code I have is an approx. 20 line 
hack which I think is worth putting in until we get around to 
rewriting the week view.  More importantly, the 20 lines are already 
written, except for a decision on what mouse binding to give it.)

-Russell




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