304492 - new event dialog & date widgetry needs way to specify tz type

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Each date needs to have some simple widgetry to pick the timezone modality
associated with that date.  As a straw-man, I suggest something along the lines
of a dropdown menu with four items:

[Default TZ]
Floating
UTC
Other

Where the [Default TZ] is displayed by name (eg America|Los_Angeles) and is the
default choice if this menu isnt touched, and Other leads to the big timezone
picker dialog.

Comment 1

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Floating could also be called "Local", FWIW.

Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

See also bug 165963.  The comments aren't all that relevant, but judging by
summaries, the bugs are pretty close.

Comment 3

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

Do we really want that for every date?  That seems like a lot of clutter for a
rarely-twiddled knob.   I guess I could see it on the context menu for a
datepicker, if we had to go there.

Comment 4

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

I think we have to go there, because otherwise it becomes really a pain to
schedule plane flights.  If we were to use a context menu, how would the
selected timezone then be displayed?  Not at all?

Comment 5

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

I dunno, if we decide that we have to have it on _each_ date/time picker -- we
use a lot of them, it turns out -- then we should get some UI guidance on how to
do that without making it really cluttered for the 90% (more?) case in which
people use their current TZ.

How does TZ input interact with sweeping out new events, or dragging them? 
Those boxes are probably the most common time/date displays and inputs in terms
of user interaction, so whatever we do should make sense for them as well.

Comment 6

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

Unfortunately, I do not have cycles to work on Calendar stuff these days (just as it's getting to the good part!), so I am a bad owner for these bugs.  To delete the tragically-large chunk of bugspam, search for gregorianabdication.

Comment 7

[Omar Bajraszewski]

Is the bug still valid? I can set timezone for each event now

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This works in the new dialog since 0.7.