413731 - Could not find calendar tab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Eric Armstrong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20071023 Sunbird/0.7

I had closed the task pane, because I don't use the calendar app to organize tasks. (Way too many, and a program never forgets, unlike bits of paper that get lost and buried.) Later, when I tried to manage calendars, I could not find the calendar tab anywhere. 

The menu option View -> Task List is a good idea. But the "task list" pane should not also include the calendar list tab. Those are two different concepts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Rating the bug as "normal", rather than "minor" because there is no way to easily  find the workaround. I went through all the menu items and all the program options a dozen times, without ever realizing that "Task List" would restore the Calendar tab.

Comment 1

[Omar Bajraszewski]

I don't understand how you managed to hide calendar list using "Task list" option. When I hide Task list the calendar list is still visible

Comment 2

[Eric Armstrong]

Ok. I see how things happened. Choosing to view tasks
made the pane *reappear*, which came as a surprise,
because it was the only way to undo an action I had
taken earlier.

In 0.7 the panels are arranged like this:

  menus
  ---------------+---------
  Left Pane      | Right Pane
                 |
  Date  Calendar | Event-list Display
  Tabs  Tab      |
                 +----------------------------------------
                 | 
                 | Calendar Display
  ---------------+
  Tasks          |
     ...         |

I got more space for the calendar by closing that pane,
which I did by dragging the divider to the left.

A week or two later, I forgot I had done that. (Once
closed, there is still a narrow handle to grab, but 
it was small, so I missed it.

(Now that I have that view back, I like the items in
the dates tab. I missed it, and felt the need for it,
but had forgotten that it ever existed.)

At this point, I'd change the bug to an RFE if I could,
and make it into a request for an extra menu item:

  View -> Dates/Cal

That selection would make the Dates/Calendar tabs appear
and disappear:

 - If both it and View->Tasks are turned off, the pane
   would disappear and there would be more calendar space.

 - If just Dates/Cal is turned off, the pane would have
   more room for tasks.

 - And if both were off, hapless victims of their own
   memory lapses like me would have a less surprising
   way to get back the pane they were looking for

(I would especially like to change the title of this
thing so it has beeter a chance of acquiring votes, 
now that the real issue has been identified.)

Thanks for prompting me to take a deeper look.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Eric, please file a new bug for your enhancement request. That makes it much easier to keep track of things. 

The issue described here is not a bug.
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