Bug 5241

Summary: awkward implementation of "addEvent" use case
Product: [Applications] korganizer Reporter: Unknown <null>
Component: generalAssignee: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: general, kde, manfred.morgner
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.91   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Other   
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Description Mark Coletti 2000-06-20 17:18:17 UTC 
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package: korganizer
Version: 1.91 (KDE 1.91 Beta >= 20000608)
Severity: grave

When adding an appointment one must call up a dialog either through the 
"Actions" menu or by right clicking on the schedule area.  The the user must
set the start and end times via two fields in the dialog.

A better way and one used by the gnome calendar would be to allow the
user to select a time span directly on the event window and _immediately_
type in an event description.  Here's a breakdown and comparison of the 
semantics:

Old way:

1. select action menu or right click over event window
2. select "add event" or "add appointment"
3. wait for dialog to pop up
4. select start time
5. select end time
6. add descriptive text

New way:

1. select time span on event window
2. type descriptive text (first keystroke pops in a text dialog covering 
   the selected region)

Easy!  :)

Cheers

Mark
mcoletti@clark.net
Comment 1 John O'Brien 2002-11-18 13:04:44 UTC 
I like this suggestion. I was going to propose that the dropdown menus for 
Start and End times be modified so that only each hour was shown, the user 
would then click the hour and a submenu should appear to the side with the 15 
minute intervals. This would make the drop down list a lot shorter and 
eliminate a lot of scrolling up and down. Also the minute intervals should be 
configurable to 5/10/15/20 minutes. 
 
Mark's suggestion is better though.
Comment 2 Ed Suominen 2003-06-04 00:46:08 UTC 
I like this as well. Also, it should be easy to specify "zero duration" events.
Comment 3 Reinhold Kainhofer 2003-08-03 00:20:05 UTC 
*** Bug 26038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Reinhold Kainhofer 2003-08-13 22:40:07 UTC 
*** Bug 52367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Cornelius Schumacher 2003-09-05 21:32:01 UTC 
This will be fixed in KOrganizer 3.2.