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Beef with iCal
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Burlington, VT, USA
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Does anyone besides me think iCal could use a LOT of work on the UI? For starters, I'd like to see the following changes:
#1. Stop using the drawer, it's terrible. Visually boring, and no need to be that big. Creating a new event should bring up a new window, with all the options (start time, end time, reminder, name, location, comments).
#2. If you've seen the screenshots of Tiger's Mail.app, I'm a big fan of the "platinum" look. I think the calendar and the todo items should appear on the left, below the months of the calendar, similar to the folder list in Mail.
#3. Give us a more functional todo list. It sucks as a drawer.
#4. Should have a notes section in addition to calendar and to do.
That's all I can think of for now.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New York, NY
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Originally posted by leperkuhn:
Does anyone besides me think iCal could use a LOT of work on the UI? For starters, I'd like to see the following changes:
#1. Stop using the drawer, it's terrible. Visually boring, and no need to be that big. Creating a new event should bring up a new window, with all the options (start time, end time, reminder, name, location, comments).
#2. If you've seen the screenshots of Tiger's Mail.app, I'm a big fan of the "platinum" look. I think the calendar and the todo items should appear on the left, below the months of the calendar, similar to the folder list in Mail.
#3. Give us a more functional todo list. It sucks as a drawer.
#4. Should have a notes section in addition to calendar and to do.
iCal definitely needs some work, but the "problems" you've mentioned are not really problems:
#1 - you can just get things to pop up in a new window - check your preferences/menu items (i'm not a home to check myself)
#2 - so you'd want to have the left side have: calendar list, to-do list, AND little navigation months all crowded together? I think it's best how it is now, with to-do items off to the right.
#3 - um, my to-do list isn't a drawer, it's it's own segment of the window on the right side of the screen. I agree that it could be more powerful, but being a drawer is *not* one of it's problems.
#4 - "Notes" have little to nothing to do with the calendar (and to the extent you need to, you can attach notes to events). What I think you really want is some sort of iSync support for notes (my personal choice would be syncing with Stickies), regardless, it's not an iCal issue....
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Earth
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
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In iCal, with the drawer open, go to the Windows menu item and select "Detach Info." The info drawer will now be its own separate window.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: SoCal
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iCal/Mail Beef - It's what's for dinner.
iCal - Forward a Meeting Invite from an Outlook User to your e-mail that is in Mail. Click on the invitation in the e-mail. It will open iCal and give you a dialogue box that says "This item has been deleted"
Mail - Signatures - I have a signature. But I only want to use it on one e-mail account. I do my work e-mail and my personal e-mail from the same mail app. It will autoload the signature on every account. I don't see a way to specify an individual account. I know I can set it to not autoload a signature.
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