Poor use of screen space

[Tomas Öqvist]

The current calendar layout doesn't make good use of the available screen space on a phone. As it is designed now, only about the lower half of the screen is available for actual calendar events.
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= Day =
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September 2014
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Sun Monday Tue
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 7 8 9
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 (area for full-day events)
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               (area for events)
                          19:00
                          20:00
                          21:00

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This is not a bug, but rather a request to compress the areas on the top half of the screen in order to make more room to display events.

[Kill Animals (kill-animals)]

Hey Tomas; thanks for the input
If I may offer a suggestion: download shutter, and use that to screenshot the application window, and use its edit feature to highlight what you are speaking of. This is much quicker than ascii art :)

[Tomas Öqvist (tomoqv)]

Point taken, see attached image.

[Mihir Soni (mihirsoni)]

Make sense, lets discuss this with design team and get their inputs.

[Kunal Parmar (pkunal-parmar)]

Hi Nik90,

based on you comment on Bug #1368996, I am adding same comment here as well, sorry for duplicating it.

Hi Nik90,

I have some comments related to your new design, from just looking at day view design and not knowing how you are planning weekview.

1) In Dayview, as I might have commented somewhere, there are three view, on left partial view of previous day, on right partial view of next day and in center current day.

Now that you moved date on header, that information is remove and not indicated anyhow. Please consider this.

2) In WeekView, same as Dayview, we need indication for which part belongs to which view.

I have some wild idea, which might help you.

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(HEADER) Sep 2014 <- move month and year header here on top of view header, we create some room
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 9 10 11 <- compress date header and change fonts such that it take less space
Fri Sat Sun
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All day event's <- you can reduce its side and hide/unhide as you are planning
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Time line view as before

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[Tomas Öqvist (tomoqv)]

Attached zip contains some examples of what was, in my view, a very good calendar design from Palm WebOS. Easy, intuitive and with an excellent overview on that small screen. As I often say, "Steal with pride". That is what everybody else, not least Apple, does.

[David Planella (dpm)]

It seems that this bug, except for the part where we need to show the all day events bar only if there is an all day event, is mostly fixed. We might want to mark it as Fix Released and file a new one for the all day bar.

[Mihir Soni (mihirsoni)]

This bug has been resolved and merged into trunk & also pushed to store :-

[1]https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-calendar-dev/ubuntu-calendar-app/1-RemovedDuplicateHeaders
[2]https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-calendar-dev/ubuntu-calendar-app/2-Improve-WeekView
[3]https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-calendar-dev/ubuntu-calendar-app/3-Improve-DayView
[4]https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-calendar-dev/ubuntu-calendar-app/4-Improve-Month-Year-View

[Tomas Öqvist (tomoqv)]

I am extremely pleased, this bug/wish was addressed and fixed in just over a week! Community and Ubuntu team at their best - great work!