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(In reply to comment #15)
> Given that this is an action that the user is only going to perform once, I
> don't think that sticking this in a menu-item is a good idea. To me, menus
> should be constant (so we shouldn't remove the menu-item after its done), which
> means that after the user makes a decision about the holiday file, the
> menu-item is going to be hanging around for the life of the program useless.
You're assuming that users always choose correctly, and never revisit their choices. That's a pretty dangerous assumption.
> I like the currently proposed model for the following reasons:
> 1.) It takes 0 clicks to subscribe to the calendar and 2 clicks to remove. Any
> other solution involving menu-items will be more complex.
Calendaring is not a stone-simple concept, so the most simple solution is not necessarily the right solution. Giving the user flexibility probably is..
> 2.) Since removing the calendar is so easy, this seems to be a simple addition
> to the required tasks to setup/customize Sunbird.
And if you remove it, how do you add it back?
> 3.) It aids in increasing the discoverability of calendar-colors, multiple
> calendar file, and the calendar checkboxes.
None of these are simple concepts, so what it almost seems like you're doing is pushing the concept on a user where it may be unnecessary or annoying. This, to me, seems like a conflict with your first argument.
Conceptually, holidays are a part of the structure of the calendar, they're not really events that you want conflicting with items you add, they're context for the day in question within which you can add events. Just adding an all day event doesn't really present things like a traditional calendar, and ideally "dinner at Mom and Dad's" on Thanksgiving doesn't show as a conflict simply because of how we choose to represent a holiday. If at all possible it should reflect in the view as something fixed and unalterable yet subtle, with an option for what country's holidays (you could get fancy and let people add multiples, i.e. Canada AND the U.S. for those of us who live in one and work with people in the other).