Re: [Opentracker-develop]Nightly build tarball not up-to-date

[Axel <ax...@pi...>]

Benjamin Thery <ben...@bu...> wrote:
> Thanks for the updated tarball!
> I've just compiled the new OpenTracker and tested the calendar view.
> The calendar applets in my Fedora Core installation is something I 
> really like and I wanted to see what you implemented for OpenTracker.

Although I don't know that one, all I wanted was something very simple 
:-)
I was thinking about adding a way to see the calendar for other months 
than the current one, but I didn't find a simple way, so I left that 
out.

> Here is my feedback:
> 
> - First, it looks good to me and I think its a useful addition to the 
> Deskbar!

You're welcome :)

> - It took me some time to figure how to display it (In fact, I had to 
> look at TimeView.cpp to understand LMB must be kept pressed a few 
> seconds). On Fedora, the calendar appears at first LMB click. It's 
> more 
> "intrusive" but it's easy to figure how it works.

At first, I had it in the right click menu; but that didn't look good, 
and, as you say, was kinda intrusive. And misplaced in my opinion.
BTW you only need to press the button (left or middle) less than one 
second - although that depends on the time you've chosen as a double-
click frame.

> - Months, year and days of the week appear a bit to light on my 
> display 
> compared to the background.

That's actually intended, even if I might have done too much - since 
it's always the current month, and you should know the weekdays, that 
information is not so important compared to the rest.
I'll try to make it a bit darker without coming to close to the day 
numbers.

> - Here, in France, weeks start on monday. Do you think it's worth to 
> add 
> a new deskbar setting (after "European date") or will this be handled 
> automagically by the locale kit one day? ;-)

That is supposed to be fixed with the Locale Kit, yes; then all those 
settings will be removed from the Deskbar anyway. Since I intend to 
ship the Locale Kit with the next Tracker release (just don't ask when 
;-)), there is no need to change that now.

> - Finally something specific to my settings: I cannot distinguish the 
> current day from the other days. Indeed, my plain font is quite small 
> (swis721 BT Roman 10) and therefore its bold face is not different 
> from 
> the Roman face. May be you could also alter the background color of 
> the 
> current day (kind of inverse video... not sure if this is feasible 
> easily) or you could simply use be_bold_font to draw it?

be_bold_font may have a different size, so this could look a bit odd. 
Anyway, I'll see how I could make it more prominent. Maybe an underline 
would do.

> Great work.
> It's nice to see some new features added to OpenTracker.

And yet there is still plenty to be done :)

Bye,
   Axel.