286656 - Redesign of "New Event" Dialog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, enhancement)

Description

[Caliga (Daniel St.)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

I'd like to have a "New Event" dialog that allows faster progress, especially if
you edit lots of events.
Maybe my approach will be called too complex for unexperienced users (but i
don't think so). Anyway, there may be switch for advanced users.

I redesigned the dialog with the goal to reduce the ammount of clicks needed to
edit the options.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open Calendar
2. create new event
3. take a look on the dialog
4. take a look at the screenshoots (see additional information)

Actual Results:  
i was impressed :)

Expected Results:  
look like the second screenshot

http://home.arcor.de/caliga/down/newevent1.png
http://home.arcor.de/caliga/down/newevent2.png

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Sorry, but from an UI designer standpoint this is not the way to go. 
You're aiming for an all-or-nothing approach, but I would contest that many if
not most of our users, do not need all these options every time they add a new
event.

So your proposal would make it much harder for most of our users to add a new
event, which is not desirable.

Actually we're going for a much more simple new event dialog. Screenshots can be
seen at http://www.babylonsounds.com/2004/12/new-stuff-coming-for-sunbird.html

Comment 2

[Caliga (Daniel St.)]

well, i didn't know that there will be lots of new options...

anyway, maybe there could be an option to switch between structured and complex
dialogs.
i don't like to click on "recurrence" 20 times when i am about to enter 20
birthdays.
also, i prefer radio buttons instead of dropdowns, they just save time...

but then, another proposal:
there could be some kind of template...:
i select item type: "Birthday" and recurrence is automatically set to 1 year.
also, the dialog could remember which item type i used the last time.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

First of all, this bug is still WONTFIX.

(In reply to comment #2)
> well, i didn't know that there will be lots of new options...
> 
> anyway, maybe there could be an option to switch between structured and 
> complex dialogs. i don't like to click on "recurrence" 20 times when i am 
> about to enter 20 birthdays. also, i prefer radio buttons instead of 
> dropdowns, they just save time...

I doubt that we will introduce a pref for some kind of an advanced diaog mode.

> but then, another proposal:
> there could be some kind of template...:
> i select item type: "Birthday" and recurrence is automatically set to 1 year.
> also, the dialog could remember which item type i used the last time.

That's a pretty good suggestion. Please file a new bug for this.

Comment 4

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

that's bug 274455