481029 - improve the invite attendees and free/busy user interfaces (grouping bugs)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Calendar :: Dialogs, enhancement)

Description

[Jelle de Jong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020409 Iceweasel/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18pre) Gecko/20090113 Debian/5.0 (Codename: lenny) Iceowl/0.9

bug:
  make free/busy information usable with caldav calenders and document it
bug:
  make invite attendees work with caldav calenders and document it

I have a list of darwin calender server users that support free/busy.

When manually typing in the email addresses (cuaddr) of the users the free/busy info is shown so it kind or does something.

I would like this feature to become easy usable so organization can plan with automatic and easy free/busy information and manage meetings and events/tasks.

The current gui does not work well, moving/changing a blue time block often loses focus, and there is no focus, the scaling feature also works counter intuitive. I would really like to see this become user friendly and usable in organizations that use only free/libre open source software systems.

see also related:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465911
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474218
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454998
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454609

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jelle de Jong]

Attachment: screenshot of invite attendees and free/busy user interfaces

Comment 2

[Jelle de Jong]

Attachment: gnome evolution free/busy dialog

Comment 3

[Jelle de Jong]

Attachment: gnome evolution invite attendees ldap contacts dialog

Comment 4

[Jelle de Jong]

Attachment: gnome evolution create meeting dialog

Comment 5

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> bug:
>   make free/busy information usable with caldav calenders and document it
> bug:
>   make invite attendees work with caldav calenders and document it
Apart from the enhancement request, please file separate bugs if caldav free/busy doesn't work for you.

Comment 6

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Jelle, what is left to do here? Maybe those issue can be be filed as single bugs for easier distribution of developer tasks.

Comment 7

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

No response for a while now, closing INCOMPLETE. Please reopen if you can reproduce or answer any unanswered questions.