[kronolith] New Event

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:

> On 16 November 2012 05:18, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> 1) The Kronotlith New Event link is easily available from any
>>> application - including the portal.  Why, then, is it necessary to
>>> switch to Kronolith once the new event link is used?  For example, if
>>> I get an email asking for a meeting or arranging an appointment - I
>>> should be able to access the new event dialogue whilst still viewing
>>> the email.
>>
>>
>> Maybe you didn't notice, but the new event dialog is not a popup window.
>
> Perhaps window was the wrong term - it's clearly a div/iframe, but I
> still don't see why it needs to load Kronolith in the background.  It
> means at least one extra click to return to IMP or the portal or what
> ever - and extra clicks should be avoided as a matter of good UI
> design.

Again, the dialog is not a popup. It *has* to load the whole calendar  
UI because it is *part* of that UI.

>>> 2) If you have more than one event in a day then a) it looks like the
>>> appointments are adjacent and worse than that, that they are actually
>>> related.  It would be nice to have at least a border around the
>>> individual events to denote separate events please.
>>
>>
>> I think it looks better this way.
>
> Sweet.  But could you make it a preference then please?  Even having a
> different shade would help distinguish.  At the moment I have
> something that looks like:
>
> O. Musterman
> Gesellschaft
>
> which looks to all the world like one meeting with O. Musterman at
> Gesellschaft and not two separate events, one with O. Musterman and
> one with Gesellschaft.  Even adding the meeting times, or even just
> the start time would help with clarity.  Clarity is another plank of
> good UI design principles.

It's a preference to display the start time.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/