[Evolution] Re: [HC Gene-pool] Calendar status report

[Damon Chaplin <damon helixcode com>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> Miguel told me that Damon was having trouble compiling the whole of
> Evolution; Damon, if this is true, please tell me and I'll be
> delighted to give you a hand.  I just rebuilt my whole tree today, and
> it seems to work fine.

It's OK. I've got it going now.


> Damon, I need you to tell me if some new calendar view widgets can be
> integrated into the main GUI.

I've just about got the Week & Month views ready to add in.
(They don't support resizing and dragging events yet but I'll do
that later.)

 
> I was looking at Outlook a bit, and I think I am going to zorch the
> notebook that holds all the views.  Instead we'll have toolbar buttons
> that let the user switch between views, which actually are just
> different ranges of time that get displayed by the e-day-view or the
> upcoming (?) month view.  Outlook's scheme actually makes a lot of
> sense, since it lets the user select precisely the range of time he
> wants to see, instead of constraining it to days/weeks/months/years.

I wanted to do that as well. The Day, Work-Week & Week views can
all have the GtkCalendar and ToDo list on the right (as in Outlook).
So I think we should use 2 notebooks, without tabs. The main notebook contains
2 pages - on one page is the Month view, and on the other is the GtkCalendar
and ToDo list next to the second notebook. The second notebook contains the
Day, Work-Week & Week views.

 
> There is another subtlety when you switch between views.  Right now in
> Gnomecal it is a mess, because each view has its own concept of the
> "currently shown time".  When you switch views, it can be confusing to
> just what time you switched to.  I.e. When you switch from the month
> view to the day view, what day should be displayed?
>
> Outlook solves this by having a cursor in all the views.  The cursor
> determines the current time.  For example, you can move in the month
> view across days with this cursor.  If you switch to the day view, the
> cursor's day will be shown.  This is very nice to work with.

Yes, I was thinking about this yesterday. I'll do it if you want.

 
> It would be very nice if all the calendar hackers could send in a
> little status report to see what everyone is up to.

I think I've covered this. I've almost done the Week & Month views.

I'm willing to do any/all of these:

 o integrate all the new views into the calendar.
 o add the toolbar buttons to switch views, and rearrange the widgets etc.
 o add support for a 'current time' to all views.
 o make all views reload events lazily, i.e. only when they are visible.

Let me know which ones I should go ahead with.

Are we keeping the Year View? I can look into speeding that up if you like.
(I'm not sure why it is so slow displaying & resizing.)

Damon