Calendar:Improving the Calendar Views

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Current Issues (Lightning 0.3)

The table below lists users feedback regarding the usability of the main Lightning UI.

Issues:

  1. The calendar below the email accounts is disturbing and to big if you also use the "contact sidebar" extension.
  2. After starting Thunderbird I don't know in which calendar I'm working in.
  3. I can't drag an event from one calendar into another.
  4. All the different colors in the week view are confusing me. Especially same things are highlighted differentially.
  5. I want to switch between E-Mail and Calendar easily.
  6. Why am I seeing the mail tree when I'm working in the Calendar?
  7. I don't want to see Saturday and Sunday. I use my calendar only for my work.
  8. The left side looks very cluttered.
  9. How can I switch into a different view?
  10. I have 3 calendars. One for work, the other are subscribed ones. Which means that I don't have write access on these. I don't know how many times I tried accidentally to create an event in one of the read only calendars.


Proposal

Most of the issues stated above can be fixed by focusing on the following areas:

Rearranging already existing UI elements

At the moment, Lightning 0.3 combines very important information on the left hand side. From an users point of view these are:

  • Access to the E-Mail account (Mail Account Tree),
  • a Calendar (Mini Moth),
  • an Agenda List (Agenda Tab),
  • a Todo List (Todo Tab)and
  • a list of Calendars (Calendar Tab)

The problem with that solution is that 70% of the visual information is placed on 30% of the screen.

Depending on the task users want to fulfill, each element of the left hand pane has a different importance level.

For the tasks "Write or Read Mail" the order could be:

  1. Mail Account Tree
  2. Agenda
  3. Mini Month
  4. Todo
  5. Calendar


For the task "Create Event" the order is different:

  1. Calendar
  2. Mini Month
  3. Agenda
  4. Todo
  5. Mail Account Tree

To reduce visual clutter I'd like to propose to split the Mail/Calendar pane into two separate parts.

  • One pane which focuses on mail reading/writing,
  • the other on calendaring.

The table below lists the items of each pane:

Mail Pane Calendar Pane
* Mail Account Tree * Mini Month
* Calendar Subscriptions


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