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Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Great work!! Just one request, could you please make Month name as same Font size and color as Day name?
Also, why to remove past event if user don't Dismiss the reminder. Sometime the appointment gets postponed for 15 min or 30 minutes, I just hit the snooze button. I keep getting reminders but that appointment is no longer visible in the widget. Does it make sense to keep appointments in widget until user hits "Stop" button on Alarm screen or until Alarm is active?

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Hey Nicolai,

Thanks for the 0.9 update I really like the 'Show age' feature!
However, I did notice that the 'Update when switch to the desktop' function slowed the phone down quite a bit..
Maybe it checks too often?

Great work in any case :)

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

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Originally Posted by systemcrash (Post 732322)

I've noticed a really minor problem with version 0.9 (which is really good. Thanks Nicolai). I use the Spanish localization, so it could just be a translation problem.

During an event (let's say 10:30 for an event from 10:00 to 11:00), the event is still showing but it's starting time is replaced by the word "Hoy" (Today) while I guess should be "Ahora" (Now).

Do other people, in other languages, see the same?

It is not a translation bug. I use the same word (today) for both.
I have never considered to distinguish those cases. Good idea.

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Originally Posted by mssusa (Post 730050)

I think there is something wrong with the calendar. Twice now I feel that it changes the time (only time, not date) for events I set. I am doubting myself and can't be sure if it is my own mistake :confused:

I hope it is your fault ;-)
I will take a look, but as far as I know, my widget does not change
any events in the calendar. Just shows them. Do you mean
it changes the time of the events, as they are in the calendar
application. Or are they just wrongly displayed.

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Originally Posted by DreamLand (Post 734837)

Great work!! Just one request, could you please make Month name as same Font size and color as Day name?

No, I like it how it looks :-)

Quote:

Originally Posted by DreamLand (Post 734837)

Also, why to remove past event if user don't Dismiss the reminder. Sometime the appointment gets postponed for 15 min or 30 minutes, I just hit the snooze button. I keep getting reminders but that appointment is no longer visible in the widget. Does it make sense to keep appointments in widget until user hits "Stop" button on Alarm screen or until Alarm is active?

I think this information isn't saved in the calendar database.
So, my calendar widget can not know which appointments are
dissmissed.

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Originally Posted by Berserk (Post 734864)

However, I did notice that the 'Update when switch to the desktop' function slowed the phone down quite a bit..
Maybe it checks too often?

I will take a look. But this feature should be necessary only if you
use some apps which updates the calendar db in the background,
without using the calendar-backend.
Otherwise the event-list should be always uptodate automatically.
(It listens on signals for the calendar dbchange and updates
accordingly) You don't need this option, as long as you don't have a sync-app.

Thank you all for your feedback.

nicolai

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Quote:

Originally Posted by mssusa (Post 730050)

I think there is something wrong with the calendar. Twice now I feel that it changes the time (only time, not date) for events I set.

Did you change your time zone in the meantime? If this is your case, read on.

It happened to me that I entered some meetings being in a time-zone and then traveled to another time-zone. In the new time-zone all the meetings had their time updated so that it happened at the same moment they where initially planned (as if they where actually stored in GMT in the db). I don't know if this is a bug or a feature of the calendar, but at that time I was not using this widget (which makes it non-guilty :) ).

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

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Originally Posted by DaSilva (Post 729519)

Thanks for the update, works great!

Is it possible to add a feature like "Show always the next birthday(s) X days in advance" which shows the birthday(s) at the bottom X (X = 1-14) days in advance even if there are more appointments before the birthday? Would be nice to use as a backup ;)

And what do you think about this?

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

You can put more than one widget on your desktop.
For example, I have one widgets for events from the default calendar
and a second one for birthday events.

regards
nicolai

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Ah, okay.
But I don't have enough space for that so an option like that would be nice.

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Hi Nicolai,

Do you think it would be possible to link a contact to an event? Imagine you're in the event (checking or changing) and want to call the person. A link to the contact might be useful and certainly save a few touches.

Otherwise, great additions to the current calendar!

Jezz

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicolai (Post 735036)

I hope it is your fault ;-)
I will take a look, but as far as I know, my widget does not change any events in the calendar. Just shows them. Do you mean it changes the time of the events, as they are in the calendar application. Or are they just wrongly displayed.

It must be my own fault as I tried to replicate it but couldn't. Anyway, I started writing the event time inside the event text just to catch this and make sure I am not crazy :D

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Originally Posted by systemcrash (Post 735071)

I might have played with the time zone or regional settings. I am not sure. I'll try and create an event then go and play with the regional settings again. I'll report the outcome here.

EDIT: Systemcrash, it appears that you are right. I changed the time zone and the event time changed. I now kind of remember that I once found my phone in the pacific timezone and changed it to my time zone (GMT+1) which changed times dramatically. The weird thing is that it did not change the times for events that have no alarms! (or were those the events I synchronized from my E90 when I moved to the N900? I am not sure).

NB. Nicolai, when I changed the time zone the first time the widget disappeared. I rebooted the phone but it did not appear again so I had to add it. I changed the the time zone twice after that but it did not disappear. Any ideas?

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Thanks Nicolai fo rprompt response:: "No, I like it how it looks :-)"
I just thought that month name in small letters with blue color might not stand out well as it would in white color!! Mainly because of the blue desktop background.
But many thanks for this great widget.