Re: Calendar/Alarm IRC Developer Meeting?

From: Philip Blundell <pb.a.t.nexus.co.uk>
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 15:19:00 EDT

On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:11, Robert Mibus wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 19:23, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 05:56, Robert Mibus wrote:
> > > no full-day events
> > > -> Why not?
> >
> > You can easily set the start and end time for an appointment to
> > encompass a full day (or even several days). There doesn't seem to be
> > much benefit in having a special button for that.
> Sure there is ;-)
>
> It's easier.
>
> In PalmOS, full-day events are untimed, and show up as a single line at
> the top of the calendar - something like a birthday won't "fill up" the
> entire day view.

Right, but surely a birthday would be an untimed reminder, not an
appointment.

> PalmOS also has this cool trick of only displaying hours between <timea>
> and <timeb> if other times aren't set. (timea defaults to 9AM and timeb
> to 5PM; this makes the entire day fit on one page).

Yeah. Something I keep meaning to do is make gpe-calendar automatically
scroll the window to a more sensible time by default.

p.
Received on Sun Sep 22 19:19:06 2002

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