Weekly View Feedback

[ocdtrekkie]

As per previous notes, I'm aware this is at an earlier stage of development, but I wanted to share my specific/actionable thoughts, in case it provides helpful ideas on approaches for improvement:

1. The weekly view should display the range of dates it is displaying at the top.
2. When I have a calendar item at 2:00 PM, for example, 2:00 PM does not display for that day, and I have to infer where the meeting is by surrounding squares. Headings should not disappear because events are present.
3. Similarly, if I have a meeting in partway through an hour, I have no visible reference to the start time. 2:00 PM displays, and my 2:30 is in the empty box between 2:30 and 3:00. Events should begin with their exact start time.
4. The width of the week on my screen seems to change in seemingly random ways based on the contents of items on my schedule.
5. I have to scroll down to the part of the day I normally care about (9 AM to 9 PM or so), because the view starts at midnight. I would either maybe start this view/autoscroll it to/auto-hide anything above 6 AM, or for more dynamic behavior, display time starting at the earliest appointment on the schedule.
6. Possibly narrow rows where no events exist at a given time all week to help reduce scrolling, as weekly view is presently like three desktop screens tall, even when only one or two events are present.

[zenhack]

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, a lot of this is stuff I'm aware of/already planning on fixing, but I wanted to get the MVP out the door.

Re: (4), can you show me some examples?

[ocdtrekkie]

I will email you a link to a video recording.

[zenhack]

I have taken the liberty of editing your comment to be a checklist.

[zenhack]

Related to the width changing (which is fixed on master), I also noticed the height of the cells sometimes changes, when you have an event with a long title. Probably should pick a sensible size and just cut it off.

[ocdtrekkie]

Related to the width changing (which is fixed on master), I also noticed the height of the cells sometimes changes, when you have an event with a long title. Probably should pick a sensible size and just cut it off.

It probably should cut off the event title at maybe two rows, as opposed to the cell height. It's plausible someone may have multiple items in a row, and it may be well warranted for the cell height to grow to accommodate that.

[ocdtrekkie]

We are now very literal about taking all available space in 0.8:

[ocdtrekkie]

Additionally, "all day" events currently just obliterate the whole day, it looks like. Other than that, I like that events now expand to their end times.

[zenhack]

Quoting Jacob Weisz (2022-09-16 06:39:25)

We are now very literal about taking all available space in 0.8:

Can you explain what I'm looking at here/what the problem is? Is this on mobile? It scales correctly for me...

[ocdtrekkie]

That was desktop Firefox, it appears to go slightly wider than the iframe for some reason.

[zenhack]

Interesting, Firefox doesn't do that for me... I suppose I could add a small margin.

[zenhack]

Pushed a small update that introduces a margin; want to give it a try?

[ocdtrekkie]

Looks good to me!

[zenhack]

Still on the TODO list is making it deal with multiple events on the same day; my thinking was in that case to squeeze the events next to each other side-by-side. Once that's in place and there are timestamps on the events themselves, my feeling is this will be what you want -- the event is all day. Thoughts? Quoting Jacob Weisz (2022-09-16 06:46:33)

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[ocdtrekkie]

Yeah that sounds fine. The only other things on here then would be trying to get the view to more easily focus on the relevant/interesting part of the day, and the handling of All Day events, which shouldn't normally block out the day, I think?