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On Thursday 15 March 2012, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2012 22.13:34 Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> > Hmm. I have to admit that I like the way Outlook 2007 handles this
> > much better. You select the timeslot and then type the summary
> > immediately into the calendar without any annoying dialog popping
> > up.
>=20
> Well, some web interfaces allow to do just that, but what they do is
> they visualize that a new event is being created here and show a
> prompt within the calendar that allows direct editing.
>=20
> But what I am saying is that if the application does not provide any
> kind of feedback on what the user could be doing or is expected to
> do, there is definitely room for improvement, e.g. what is the use
> case for selecting a slot in the calendar without creating a new
> event? (current behaviour)
>=20
> Or: How do I select a slot that is within existing events (which were
> events of other people, or non-blocking items in the calendar)?

Outlook 2007 leaves a bit of space next to existing events to allow for=20
this. IIRC, Outlook 2003 didn't do this. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft=20
did perform extensive usabilitity testing for Outlook to find and fix=20
such problems.


> Perhaps at the next KDE PIM sprint when I believe stability will be
> resolved we can get Bj=F6rn to come back and then do a long session on
> how such things could / should work?

+1


Regards,
Ingo

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