Bug 103693

Summary:	Summary page looks messy
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	automailer
Component:	summary	Assignee:	Allen Winter <winter>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	mail, mike, oral.timocin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description automailer 2005-04-11 23:46:54 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

The way information is presented in the Kontact summary view is far behin the applications potential.

For example:

Appointmens:
If Kontacts show appointments for more then one day things get messy and it's hard to keep track of what's going on.

I would propose thinking about the following:

1. Clear structure

Today  11th April
08:00-10:00    First Meeting
10:30-11:00    Meet the boss!
14:00-15:00    Second Meeting
16:30-17:00    Very Important Thing

Tuesday 12th April
10:00-11:00    First Meeting
13:00-13:30    Second Apointment

Wednesday
<My idea should be clear now>

2. Using colors from the Categories might help
Just an idea but color coding things will also help to keep things organized

3. Icons
Icons are a very great tool to keep things easy and clear

Other ideas unrelated to apointments:

Integrate with Kopete: How about showing contacts being online

Make it possible to present stuff that matters :-) - Todays lunch in the cafeteria

More integration: Like being able to see missed phone calls there - that is not trivial of course.

Thanks for you good work!
Thorsten

Comment 1 automailer 2005-04-25 10:22:13 UTC

Maybe the pi-sync version of the what's next screen might be a solution:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/kopi_wnview.png

Comment 2 Peter Thomassen 2005-07-05 22:08:40 UTC

I also consider this a very important issue. Are there any efforts on this?

Comment 3 Allen Winter 2005-08-08 18:28:32 UTC

I think there are some good ideas in this bug report and I plan on
implementing something very much like what ko/pi has done.

Unfortunately, I doubt there will be time before KDE 3.5 is released.

So I will re-assign this to myself and hopefully will have something
much better in KDE 4.0.

Comment 4 Dotan Cohen 2008-03-23 21:07:54 UTC

I agree that the pi-sync screen is very well layed out and informative. I especially like the fact that both "two days from now" and "Saturday 15 January" are shown. This way, one knows the exact date, and the relative date, of an event. I hope to see this implemented in the Kontact Summary view as well.

Comment 5 Allen Winter 2008-03-23 23:21:12 UTC

Something similar is being developed for KDE 4.1.

We call it the "planner summary".
It currently exists in trunk.

The main developer of this feature hasn't had any time to work on it, unfortunately.

Comment 6 Allen Winter 2008-03-24 14:53:39 UTC

adding Mike

the screenshot in comment #1 has some ideas that we might want to use in the planner summary.

Comment 7 Allen Winter 2009-01-15 13:52:37 UTC

Starting with KOrganizer 4.2 we have a new Summary called "Planner".  Please use Planner to satisfy this wish.

Bugs/Wishes for Planner should be assigned to the planner summary component of the kontact product.