417217 - "Select only this calendar" is missing in calendar context menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1073982

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

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Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13pre) Gecko/20080211 Calendar/0.8pre

Sunbird is commonly used to deal with more than one calendar. Currently several clicks and therefore several asynchronous calculation times are needed to show the items of only one calendar. It is easier to set the read only state for a calendar than to show it's content solely.

The english caption of this menu entry is only a sample. "Show only this" or "Deselect others" might also be possible.

Comment 1

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Attachment: Proposal for enlarged context menu

Comment 2

[Pete Riley]

I wonder what you want to do after you select the single calendar.  Do you eventually want to restore the original selection of calendars?  Would there be a second command in the context menu to do that?

In my case, I normally have my primary calendars selected, but sometimes I want to quickly look at someone else's calendar, then switch back to my calendars.

I think it would be nice if I could hold the left mouse button down on someone else's calendar and the view shows just that calendar.  When I release the button then the view returns to my original selection of calendars.  Maybe it's for a different bug, but I just wanted to mention it.

Comment 3

[Christian Jansen]

I'd like to see this solved in a different way. It would be good to offer some sorting ui (for example folders, filtering) this would allow users to organize calendars according to their needs.

Comment 5

[Pete Riley]

Maybe this wouldn't be necessary if we could open the calendar in a new tab.