Re: [xwiki-devs] [UX][Proposal] Application: Calendar

Hi, Thanks for the proposal. It seems by and large the MoccaCal might fit ok into the new skin, and would look much better with the improvements. Some bits of feedback from me, mostly things I maybe misunderstood: - I see the "past events" list needs paging after a while of usage :) - should have thought about that in the first place. - showing events in a dialog instead of a page by itself: this is actually on the top of the todo list for me, it is just that I did not get around to work it. The new details view looks good; however I wonder what the "View" button does. Is this an alternative to "Edit", e.g. depending on the view/edit mode one sees a button to switch to the other one? For the Panels: - if there are many calendars (e.g. if every user creates ones own calendar) then the panel for filtering the calendars one wants to see will not scale well, if it lists all calenders available. (However it will be more needed then ever, of course :) However as I have no good idea how to handle the case of very many calendars, I am happy to get this panel working first. - This panel also needs a way to store some kind of "User Preferences" for the Calendar. I think this is a good idea, but I am not sure how to implement this. (Is adding a "MoccaCalendarPreferences" object to the user profile acceptable? I am not sure if this makes the users profile unusable if someone uninstalls the application that has defined the prefs.) - What does the "little calendar" panel in the lower right do? I guess it is just to show it on the same page as the other calendar related panels, because it would be good to have this panel elsewhere to be able to jump to the calendar, but that might be of not much use inside the calendar app itself? Or maybe I am misunderstanding what it is good for. About view order: - Why is "Day, Week, Month, Agenda" better than "Month, Week, Day, Agenda" ? (just asking, I do not understand the rationale) Btw, the "Month, Week, Day" order just happen to be the default for full calendar, that is the rationale why it is the way it is now. ;) I feel the best order depends on how many events are in the calendar. For example if there are only a few, say, it contains milestones for a software release, the "month view" is the one that will be used most. Well, I guess I am asking for making this configurable. I have a vague feeling that this will come back to me :D Calendars: - the reasons that the view to add calendars is now on the main page is that users do not miss that they can add their own calendars. However I understand that this is not the best way to get a high usability/area ratio, as one only rarely adds new calendars The proposal is to move that to a separate page, which I agree, and to show a "settings" button to get to that page. Where I am not sure is if "Settings" is a good label - I would not expect to find the ability to add new calendars in "Settings". I would have preferred something like "Manage Calendars". (However I have to admit that this makes the label quite long ...) - for every calendar there are "add / edit / actions" in the screens. I guess that is just the default that XWiki offers for every page? Sometimes I wonder if allowing an application to hide some of the menu options would be good. (E.g. exporting a calendar to PDF is possible, but the result looks nowhere like what the user might expect; it is mostly a blank page.) Clemens