Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 03:01, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 12:42, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 03:56, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > > Second, I cannot stess enough the calendar/ToDo lists linkage of some
> > > sorts.  I'd like to see a Task/ToDo be scheduled in the Calendar and
> > > remain in the ToDo/Task listing. It does not have to be expert, just
> > > that when I edit a "scheduled" task in the calendar that it's changed in
> > > the ToDo list as well. 
> >
> > Yes, that would make the Tasks module much more usable : tasks deadlines
> > are much better put in context when displayed within the calendar view.
> > In Evolution, a calendar entry can become a meeting when the "Schedule
> > Meeting" context menu option is selected and participants added. It
> > could by the same kind of user interaction become a task deadline :
> > select the "Set Task Deadline" context menu option and the calendar
> > entry becomes a task as well as a calendar entry. The same mechanism in
> > reverse would be a task becoming a calendar entry as well as a task when
> > a deadline is set.
>
> I would love to see tasks/calendar linked.  I'd also love to see the
> most common view for calendars avaialable.  It is independant of week,
> month or year.
>
> Gantt chart viewing would be amazing.  You've all seen them before if
> you've worked on a large project.  Each task is shown and spans an
> amount of time.  Here's the ASCII version.
>
>     Day Number |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  ...
> ---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-------
> Discuss Evo UI |XXXXX|XXXXX|XX   |     |     |     |     |
> Meeting        |     |  XXX|     |     |     |     |     |
> Implement UI   |     |     |XXXXX|XXXXX|XXXXX|XXXXX|     |
> Test UI        |     |     |     |     |  XXX|XXXXX|XXXXX|XXXXX.....
>
>
> Note that it doesn't matter how many days are displayed, you can do a
> gantt chart for a week, day, month.  Doesn't matter, and the order of
> the "tasks/appointments" doesn't matter, all they need is a start and
> end time.
there is already a bug about it:

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17816

cheers