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Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Hi,

I made a new version (0.3), most bugs are fixed.
Thank you for test and reporting.
I like this community, not only are so many developers here, who
provide time to make and share applications. But also for the
users who are kind enough and willing to test new applications.
I know how annoying it can be when applets crashes and you
have to put everything back.
So, thank you again.

There is a bug in the prior version which causes hildon-home
crash, every time you remove this widget. That may happen
if you update to this version. It is not a fault with this version.

Birthdays should now be visible without any missing events.
The widget doesn't crashes if you remove some calendars
(smart calendar for example)

Long names of events are cut and they don't shrink the calendar-icon anymore.

The widget now updates the event list when the date changes.

There may still be calendars or events which are not recognized.
Please report back if you encounter such. And I have no synchronized calendar entries to test this.

regards
nicolai

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Do I need to unistall the current version first or just update the installed version?

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

wow it's really great :) love it, and definitely SO much better than the default widget.

one thing that could make it better though: can you get the month text (June in this case) to properly align to the right (to the colored squares on the right) and center vertically? also, it would be great to have the day name (e.g. Saturday) to align left with the entries below.

ideas further improvements: maybe clicking on each entry could open up the relevant calendar entry view? i mean clicking on a listed appointment would open up that appointment's detailed view?

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

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Originally Posted by mr yoda (Post 700835)

Do I need to unistall the current version first or just update the installed version?

Just update the installed version.
But as I wrote, it may happen that hildon-home crashes.
And you have to add the other widgets again.

nicolai

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

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Originally Posted by adancau (Post 700841)

wow it's really great :) love it, and definitely SO much better than the default widget.

Thank you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by adancau (Post 700841)

one thing that could make it better though: can you get the month text (June in this case) to properly align to the right (to the colored squares on the right) and center vertically? also, it would be great to have the day name (e.g. Saturday) to align left with the entries below.

No, I like the way it is :-).

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Originally Posted by adancau (Post 700841)

ideas further improvements: maybe clicking on each entry could open up the relevant calendar entry view? i mean clicking on a listed appointment would open up that appointment's detailed view?

Good idea, but maybe it is hard to tap the right entry. I can try.

nicolai

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Thanks nicolai - the birthdays now appear to be working correctly!

I also wanted to say that I've noticed another thing your widget does better than the stock widget - you don't remove an appointment until it's finished whereas the original widget removes them once their start time is reached (which is a pain if you're late for something!) You're awesome!

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For the other comments

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Originally Posted by saxen (Post 697605)

that's what i was looking for!! could you add the feature of setting visible the place of a meeting?!

i really need it, i'd like to see where's my next lesson on widget instead of open calendar(i know i'm lazy, but it's a way to minimize actions when i'm late! :D )

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Originally Posted by nokiaboy97 (Post 698285)

I've always wanted to be able to attach pictures and/or contacts to my calendar entries. Hats off for doing what you've done, is it possible to attach pictures to an entry?

Sorry, but there is hardly enough space to include additional information.

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 698081)

Another though (or two)t:
Could this be made into a "multiple" widget? ie I could have one show business stuff (large), and one for personal (small)?

You can put multiple widgets on the desktop already. For example,
you can put a "one-week" calendar widget for business stuff and
a "one-year" calendar widget for birthdays.

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 698081)

Could it be made to show past events? I use a "Task" calendar to sync my tasks with google, since I can't sync tasks directly. However, they disappear off the calendar widget once they are "past due". If I could have two widgets going, I could use one for tasks, that show +- 1 month from todays date. This way I could better manage tasks, since tasks on the N900 are poor. Maybe even past due stuff in red.

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Originally Posted by skalogre (Post 698091)

Good suggestions. I would love to have a Task/to do view (or even second instance of the widget) with that information.

I don't want to include other types of events (todo, notes).
I would prefer to make a separate widget.

regards nicolai

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

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Originally Posted by benzo8 (Post 700853)

I also wanted to say that I've noticed another thing your widget does better than the stock widget - you don't remove an appointment until it's finished whereas the original widget removes them once their start time is reached (which is a pain if you're late for something!)

Right!
And has someone found out the different behaviour for
recurrent events?

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

One of the most ridiculed aspects of the stock calendar widget used to be its lack of the exact time of appointments. I realize there isn't a lot of space for it, but it would be really nice to see at what time every appointment is.

If there is room to expand the widget vertically (large view), then wouldn't it be possible to expand it horizontally as well, if you check an option to show time as well as date?

Re: Calendar Home Widget replacement

Thanks Nicolai, this is a great widget.

A To-do widget would also be much appreciated :-)

I'm curious now, what happens for recurring events?