Re: new calendar idea for gnome-shell

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

I still think the Calendar should be a separate tab on the overview
that does all that and more, and that clicking on the date/time would
bring you into the overview and take you to that tab.

But I'm not a designer.

Additionally, the designers don't really subscribe to this list
because design by mailing list has been proven not to work.

After gnome3 is released, hop on irc.gimp.net. #gnome-design is where
you want to go.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Benz <benz pierre gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> First off, let me say that the current state of shell is great! In
> fact, I have already formed ingrained habits due to using the shell,
> that I now find using other environments quite frustrating (like
> throwing my mouse to the top-left corner and not seeing the overview
> come up). This too me shows that the shell is well designed.
>
> Anyways, I was reading a paper on how people like to use/view their
> metadata, and one of the common requests is for the metadata to be
> more incorporated into the calendar (meaning that their accessed
> files/emails/chats/songs listened are all viewable from the calendar).
>  Which got me to thinking, maybe one of the ways in which we could
> incorporate the use of Zeitgeist in the Shell is by extending the
> calendar in the shell (it's already nice as it is, so I am hesitant in
> this) and displaying some sort of interface for their activities based
> on the date of use.
>
> I know that some work is going into the use of Zeitgeist wrt
> searching, but I was thinking there must be a nice way of using the
> idea behind the Activity Journal and incorporating it directly into
> the shell.
>
> Like I said before, the calendar is great as it is, but I do think
> that it would be nice to extend the calendar into more than just a
> task-lister.
> If this idea sounds like crack, please feel free to ignore it.
> However, I do feel that gnome could makes leaps with this feature
> included. Plus, I think it would be pretty nice.
>
> Anyways, keep up the good work.
>
> --
> Pierre Benz <Benz Pierre gmail com>
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