[Kde-pim] KOrganizer UI problems

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 10/23/07, Eva Brucherseifer <eva.brucherseifer at basyskom.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is the new the appointment style changed intentionally? imho it looks very
> old-fashioned. Some thoughts:
> - the round corners are not antialiased
> - they take away space and currently they result in a too small margin (look
> at the "D" in "Don't go fishing"
> - the corner radius is too large compared the the rest of the UI components
> - in case you want to add corners and such, you also should add a shading
> corresponding to the overall style
>
> Summing it up: I recommend to go back to the plain rectangular style. It is
> the most practical approach and even looks good.

Personally, I would also be happy with just slightly rounded,
anti-aliased corners, and a subtle gradient as background of course.
But if that's too much work right now (and I can imagine it is) I
agree with Eva.

> Cheers,
> Eva
>
> Am Freitag, 14. September 2007 schrieb Cornelius Schumacher:
> > I had a look at the current SVN version of KOrganizer and noticed a couple
> > of problems (see attached screenshot):
> > - The buttons in the date navigator are so big due to the text that they
> > make the date navigator much wider than actually needed. The width even
> > varies when moving to other months because the month names are wider or
> > smaller. I think it would be better to remove the texts.
> > - The year in the date navigator gets formatted with as "2,007". It seems
> > to be generated by the generic number formatting which is not correct for
> > year numbers.
> > - The toolbar moves back and forth when undoable actions are executed
> > because the action name which is shown in the toolbar includes the name of
> > the action (which varies in length). Maybe it would be better to only show
> > "Undo" in the toolbar and use the full name with the action included only
> > in the menu and the tool tip of the toolbar button.
> > - The multiple time zone bars in the agenda view lack an indication what
> > timezone they represent. What about removing the "all day" label on top of
> > the bars and show the timezones there.
> > - The date headers aren't adjusted accordingly when multiple time zones are
> > shown, so they then are at the wrong position.
> > - The timeline view is missing an icon
> > - What's the "timespent view"?
> > - The KOrganizer version number is not up-to-date
> > - The ThanksTo tab in the about dialog is somehow misformatted for a couple
> > of entries. I think it's also missing a couple of names.
> >
> > Is somebody working on these issues?
>
>
>
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