214042 - Usability: reduce mouse movement by placing for-/backwards arrows near each other

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Ari Kaihola]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Place < > arrowheads in weekly view header line near each other, not on start
and end of header line. In between could also be a pushbutton for jumping to
Today, like this:
< * >

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ari Kaihola]

Attachment: Picture of arrowheads, that would be easier to use, when placed near each other

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

New contact from [e-mail] to [e-mail]
Filter on string OttawaMBA to get rid of these messages. 
Sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

*** Bug 254072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Robin Edrenius]

Attachment: Move arrows closer to each other

This patch moves the arrows closer to each other. I'm not sure if you guys want this bug fixed (since it's unconfirmed and stuff), but I think it's a good idea.

A screenshot of the different views with this patch is coming in a sec.

Comment 5

[Robin Edrenius]

Attachment: Screenshots of the different views

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

My two cents on this topic: I don't like the arrow buttons inside the other nav buttons. (Its a matter of personal taste you know)

What about this idea: Remove the arrow buttons from the navigation pane and add two new customizable toolbar buttons for next/previous? Disadvantage: the remaining four navigation buttons might be hard to spot.

Comment 7

[Joey Minta]

I don't like having 2 sets of buttons right next to each other that do the same thing.  (ie >> and March both go to March).  That just seems like we're wasting screen real-estate.

Comment 8

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 9

[Damian Szczepanik]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Place < > arrowheads in weekly view header line near each other, not on start
> and end of header line.

I don't think we will change it - users don't like changes of look&feel if change does not support any new feature so for me: Wontfixed

Comment 10

[cmtalbert]

We have discussed this in the Calendar QA Team and decided that we do want a resolution or an enhancement to this feature, so we will confirm this bug.

Comment 11

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Comment on attachment 212951 [details] [diff] [review]
Move arrows closer to each other

Requesting ui-r from mvl to make a decision on this.

Comment 12

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

I don't see the usability win of this. (there might have been a win once upon a time, but the headers have changed now). If you want to browse, you can use the headers. They do the same as the arrows. For example, in the month view, if you are looking at March, there are labels for February and April pretty close to each other. In the same place as the proposed arrows, to be exact.
So, in my mind, there is no usability win, and it does not look as nice to move the buttons.
Wontfixing this bug.