GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 266621
Add "To Do" bar with events and tasks for Mail view
Last modified: 2017-07-04 17:47:48 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: Evolution doesn't have an equivalent to Outlook Today's view. This view is super nice because it shows today and the next couple of days in a single, easy to read window. Because it only shows the times for actual appointments, no space is taken up for "empty space"; it also shows the full appointment title, including the meeting room! This is awesome, 90% of the time it's the only view I need, and I never have to double click on an appointment, which for Evolution I have to do so I can see where the meeting is, and even more important, WHAT the meeting is. (See my related wish list item, bug 266620.) Because it shows today and the next two days, I can also at a glance know what's coming up. Again because no empty space is wasted, more useful information is displayed.
We have to figure out what to do here - we have the weather calendar backend now and evolution-brainread is an rss viewer.
at least you can see today's appointments easily in the clock applet of gnome by clicking on it (suse9.2, gnome2.6, evolution2.2 running here).
futuring, sorry
On this page: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6345_11-5084547.html There is a screenshot from an older version of Evolution that contains something like the "Outlook today" view: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/i/tr/cms/contentPics/t01320031014van01_k.gif I think a "Outlook Today"-like view is much needed for Evolution. Of course it should also be possible to mark TODO items as done and maybe even delete mails directly from the same view. Ideally, the "Outlook Today"-like view would have an option to define several mailboxes to display in its view for users that use Action-based mailboxes. The TODO view should have a simple input box like Pimlico Tasks (pimlico-project.org) for easily adding TODO items without having to navigate to the Tasks section of the Evolution UI. Why has the feature mentioned above been removed from Evolution, after all?
*** Bug 338341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 352523 [details] Today view (or events and tasks view in Thunderbird) I have added an attachment to show how Thunderbird also handles this. I would like to breath new life into this old request. My reasoning's are as follows: 1. If I am reading or writing email I do not want to click away (Gnome calendar or Evolution Calendar tab) to check schedule. 2. It is a constant, unobtrusive reminder of my schedule over the next few days. 3. It is not meant to replace calendar, just to enhance the feel of integration. Please consider this request and give it more attention as you have time :-)
From IRC: > <mcrha> ddreggors, do they mix tasks and events, or the techops is task, the rest are events? So in the image above there are a lot of "arrows" that are buttons that preform filtering and date selection. The arrows to right of the title ("Events" in this image, but changes based on selection) above the list allow you to show: 1. Events Only 2. Events and Tasks 3. Tasks Only The arrows (and circle) to the right of the date above the list of tasks/events allow you to choose: 1. Yesterday (Left Arrow) 2. Today (Circle) 3. Tomorrow (Right Arrow) 4. Date Picker via small calendar (Down Arrow)
Added View->Layout->Show To Do Bar, into the Mail view. It doesn't know things other applications may do, but it still works pretty fine, from my point of view (I didn't want to duplicate code to mark tasks complete, because it's not a simple boolean flag set, thus such things are done in the editor). It shows all the overdue tasks. It doesn't show tasks without due date, because for tasks it's the due date which is considered important. There's a context menu and double-click opens the event/task in its editor. The sort order is "events first, then tasks" and the time being shown is one week, divided by days. Empty days are not hidden, they just cannot expand. There are tooltips with a little bit extended information provided. Created commit f733f3a in evo master (3.25.3+)
@mcrha: Would it be possible to get a screenshot attached to bug 783793? TIA