Hi guys, I'm currently revising the KHolidays library to be more useful, in particular: * Return a date range, not just a single date * Support non-Gregorian calendars (Islamic & Jewish holidays, etc) * Add holiday type (Public, School, Financial, Religious, Cultural, etc) * Split holiday region files by type / sub-region / etc, i.e. allow separate selection of national, provincial and religious holiday files, etc * Add file metadata for region, language, name, etc. * Proper translation of holiday region name (but not holiday names themselves)
I'm planning to use the Plasma Calendar as a test client for these changes and so want to add the following: * Support multiple holidays on each day * Support multiple holiday regions at once * Choose which holiday region(s) to highlight as days off * Tool-tip on hover over day showing any holidays Of course, this is it is also a start on how to display PIM data from Akonadi (if not yet the two-way integration). I'm not sure if anyone is planning to work on that yet, but decisions on how to display holidays will affect pim and so need to be thought about together. Some points that will need input from you and the usability guys: * How do we highlight holidays, just stick to the current halo, or support multiple methods such as halo colour, day number colour, day number bold/italic, and cell background colour/shade. * Do we provide users the option of choosing the highlight method for each holiday type, or not to highlight some types? Or do we impose 'sensible' options? * How do we highlight multiple holidays and types on the same day cell? Do we rank holiday types so we show only a single highlight for each day, apply ranking at the highlight method level, or try show all types at once? (See bug 46262 for some user suggestions on PIM display in general). Has anyone used other calendar applets that do this well that we can learn from? * How to show Weekends (shading of cell or day header?) and Day of Religious Observance (red day number? possibly do same for all religious holidays?). * In configuration, for selecting multiple holiday regions I was thinking to have all the available regions listed like the timezones are, but with two tick-boxes, one for "show on calendar" and another for "show as days-off". As always we need to balance features with ease-of-use and not end up with a visual mess. Just on pim/akonadi integration, I think the obvious interaction would be double-click on a day opens KOrganizer on that day, right-click on a day puts options in the menu for add/edit pim 'stuff' for that day. That's not my immediate priority, but we should think about it in general terms to see if it would clash with the holidays handling. Thoughts? John. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
