306147 - [RFE] New profile wizard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

When Sunbird or calendar extension creates a new profile, it would be nice if a
wizard is presented to user asking for, IMO, at least the following things:

* The "Create new calendar" wizard, instead of creating a local one. 
Personally, I always create a new remote calendar and then delete the local one.
 What a waste of time and effort.

* If he wants to "reload remote calendar" at startup if his previous choice was
"remote calendar"

* First day of the week.  It would be cool if Sunbird could try to check system
locale and give a first guess because most European countries use Monday as the
first day.

* Time zone, but it would also be cool if Sunbird could try to get a first guess
from system, as suggested in other bugs.

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #0)
> * The "Create new calendar" wizard, instead of creating a local one. 
> Personally, I always create a new remote calendar and then delete the local one.
>  What a waste of time and effort.

Seems reasonable.

> * If he wants to "reload remote calendar" at startup if his previous choice was
> "remote calendar"

This option is obsolete now.

> * First day of the week.  It would be cool if Sunbird could try to check system
> locale and give a first guess because most European countries use Monday as the
> first day.

This is determined by your localization file.  I'm reluctant to look for more
than that given the variations between OSs.

> * Time zone, but it would also be cool if Sunbird could try to get a first guess
> from system, as suggested in other bugs.

We do a lot to guess the system TZ, and generally we get it right (or close to
right).  This just isn't reflected yet in the preferences dialog.  If you have a
debug build, dump() will announce the TZ we guessed for you in the console.

Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

Attachment: launch wizard instead

This patch launches the wizard if there are no calendars present in the
profile.  This is instead of simply creating a local 'Home' calendar.  See my
previous comment for reasons why I feel this is the only change warranted by
this bug.

Comment 3

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

The idea is that you can run sunbird, and it just works. You can create events
etc. The average user can now work with the app. Asking them about calendar,
locations, types etc on first startup isn't very friendly. So for now, i don't
like this patch very much.

Comment 4

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

We should try to not need a wizard on first startup. The app should just work
for new users.

Comment 5

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

Well, I don't know where the debug build could be found, but one thing is sure,
SB always guees it wrong for the TZ.  Removing the wizard is depriving
user-friendliness to others.  Most modern applications do display a wizard to
user.  I don't see the problem.  And moreover, it seems it's Mostafa the
assigned guy to this guy.  He should have the final word.

How about a first dialog asking the user if he wants to do some config and
default is No.
_______

Do you want to do some special setups?
O Yes
O No (most users don't need to do any setups)

Comment 6

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

Typo error:
... assigned guy to this bug.

Comment 7

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

If we can't make a good guess at the timezone, we could add a wizard just for
that (on first startup). We are not going to provide a wizard for adding a calendar.

Comment 8

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

OK, that's better than nothing.  And while we're there, please use the wizard to
ask for the first day of the week too.

Comment 9

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

(In reply to comment #8)
> And while we're there, please use the wizard to
> ask for the first day of the week too.

Calendar works fine with the 'wrong' day as first day. It might behvae weird
when the wrong timezone is choosen. So the timezone should be correct (maybe
using a wizard), but the first day of the weeks doesn't need a wizard.