[Evolution-hackers] For the userinterface dudes (appointment
alarm dialog)
Philip Van Hoof
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Oh ... And it's not complete yet.
The close button should probably be removed or only visible once all
items have been seen or dismissed.
Or the close button should be renamed to "dismiss"
The snooze button should probably remove the current item from the
treeview
etc etc etc
But you'll get the idea
thats the point of this patch :-)
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:33 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I understand the UI proposal of Calum Benson and will for sure take a
> look at the possibility to do it that way.
>
> For now I have implemented it so that the GUI is like on the screenshot.
>
> It's probably pretty unstable and .. I don't know :-)
>
> But it would be great if some folks tested this and commented on it.
>
>
> The idea of Calum Benson is more easily implementable after this patch,
> of course.
>
> It's just a few userinterface-changes to the current patch.
>
> I wont have time to tryout that idea this evening. I invite anybody
> interested to do that
>
> Make sure that you inform me about it. Because I'm planning to take a
> look at it too. It would be stupid to duplicate work, of course.
>
> ps. I'm not expecting that this would go in the GNOME 2.10.0 branch or
> 2.2.x release. So I'm not trying to hurry getting this finished.
>
> ps. JPR: This is (already) the stuff that we've been talking about on
> IRC.
>
>
> Sorry for the quick e-mail .. I lost track of time a bit and I have to
> pickup my girlfriend somewhere :-). I've ran this one only once so YES
> it's probably full of bugs and crashes and stuff.
>
> But thats fun. So ... have fun
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 15:00 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > I'm planning to redo some of the appointment alarm dialog code. The
> > current problem with it is that if multiple events happened (while you
> > where gone), you'll see multiple dialogboxes.
> >
> > The idea is to "catch" them in the same dialog.
> >
> > http://www.freax.be/files/alarm-notify.glade.png
> >
> >
> > If you have UI/usability comments: please throw them.
> >
> >
> >
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Philip Van Hoof, Software Developer @ Cronos
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gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org
work: philip dot vanhoof at cronos dot be
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Oh ... And it's not complete yet.<BR>
<BR>
The close button should probably be removed or only visible once all items have been seen or dismissed.<BR>
<BR>
Or the close button should be renamed to "dismiss" <BR>
<BR>
The snooze button should probably remove the current item from the treeview<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
etc etc etc <BR>
<BR>
But you'll get the idea<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
thats the point of this patch :-)<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:33 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi there,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I understand the UI proposal of Calum Benson and will for sure take a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">look at the possibility to do it that way.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">For now I have implemented it so that the GUI is like on the screenshot.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It's probably pretty unstable and .. I don't know :-)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">But it would be great if some folks tested this and commented on it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The idea of Calum Benson is more easily implementable after this patch,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of course.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It's just a few userinterface-changes to the current patch.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I wont have time to tryout that idea this evening. I invite anybody</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">interested to do that</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Make sure that you inform me about it. Because I'm planning to take a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">look at it too. It would be stupid to duplicate work, of course.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ps. I'm not expecting that this would go in the GNOME 2.10.0 branch or</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2.2.x release. So I'm not trying to hurry getting this finished.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ps. JPR: This is (already) the stuff that we've been talking about on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">IRC.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Sorry for the quick e-mail .. I lost track of time a bit and I have to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">pickup my girlfriend somewhere :-). I've ran this one only once so YES</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it's probably full of bugs and crashes and stuff. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">But thats fun. So ... have fun</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 15:00 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I'm planning to redo some of the appointment alarm dialog code. The</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> current problem with it is that if multiple events happened (while you</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> where gone), you'll see multiple dialogboxes.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> The idea is to "catch" them in the same dialog.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://www.freax.be/files/alarm-notify.glade.png">http://www.freax.be/files/alarm-notify.glade.png</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> If you have UI/usability comments: please throw them.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
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Philip Van Hoof, Software Developer @ Cronos
home: me at freax dot org
gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org
work: philip dot vanhoof at cronos dot be
junk: philip dot vanhoof at gmail dot com
<A HREF="http://www.freax.be">http://www.freax.be</A>, <A HREF="http://www.freax.eu.org">http://www.freax.eu.org</A>
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