GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 753131
[month view] time-based events should show their time and appear differently from all-day events
Last modified: 2017-11-24 21:35:18 UTC
Compared to California, Google Calendar and others, GNOME Calendar currently shows time-based events in the month's "day cells" the same way as it displays all-day events (big rounded background, no time shown). Instead I would expect it to be a background-less colored timestamped label, ex: "12:00 lunch with the Yakuza"
Created attachment 322713 [details] [review] event-widget: show start time when event is timed We differentiate all day events from timed events by their ordering, but we don't give any visual clues of this differentiation. Fix that by adding the start time of the event when it's a timed event.
Fixed. Thanks for the report. Attachment 322713 [details] pushed as 5227f3f - event-widget: show start time when event is timed
I see the result now, it's an improvement as the label shows the time... however I'm still kinda used to having them backgroundless (with the label colored instead), perhaps because that's how most gcal and ical do it...
So, having used the current implementation for a bit, I'd like to bump this back up... I really have a hard time distinguishing all-day events from time-based ones right now if the only difference is the label, I'd rather prefer the backgroundless+colored_label approach for time-based events, if you think it makes sense. This is how it looks like in Google Calendar: http://kingpinlifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cam_google_calendar1.jpg And in iCal: http://www.productivecomputing.com/cart/img_cart/iCal_View.png Even if you're standing 3 meters away from the screen you can instantly see which days have full-day events and which ones are full of meetings.
Eh, I kind of like the solid backgrounds for all events/appointments because it makes the calendar color stand out more. I don't have super strong feelings about the aesthetic aspect of this, though. And as for the utility, I think differentiating between all-day and timed events is probably less important for month view than it will be in week view. So maybe the current design in month view will be okay once the feature request in bug #733947 is finished?
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