[Evolution-hackers] Re: Selecting/Unselecting Sources

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 22:10, JP Rosevear wrote:
> Basically the UI for showing/hiding calendar sources and selecting a
> primary source sucks pretty bad.  It allows inconsistencies in the UI. 
> I've been playing around with this a bit and keep coming up with two
> issues:
> 
> 1. Does it make sense to allow a "primary" calendar (the one
> highlighted) to not be checked (shown in the view to the right).  What
> does Apple's Ical do?
> 
> 2. When checking/unchecking a calendar, should you be forced to select
> the row you are toggling?
> 
> In order not to force the selection in 2 we probably need to override
> the selection stuff in gtk tree view (because this seems to be the way
> it works).  We could probably bold the "primary" calendar in this case
> (similar to how the mailer does things.  This would mean the addressbook
> would do this as well.  This would also allow us to do the colors better
> I think, since the highlight area would not draw over the colors.

One more thing, we could do double-clicking to bold.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.