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- From: stephen@moclips (Stephen L Nicoud)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Why is the File Manager in OW 3.0 so buggy?
- Message-ID: <81667@bcsaic.boeing.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 03:17:12 GMT
- References: <3202@peking.gdwb.oz.au> <1992Aug29.013454.27782@tin.monsanto.com>
- Sender: nntp@bcsaic.boeing.com
- Reply-To: stephen@boeing.com (Stephen L Nicoud)
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services Research and Technology, Bellevue, WA USA
- Lines: 103
- Originator: stephen@atc.boeing.com
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-
- On 29 Aug 92 01:34:54 GMT in a comp.windows.open-look article, nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman) wrote:
-
- Craig Bishop (csb@gdwb.oz.au) wrote:
- : I disagree about the Calender Manager. It has a long way to go before
- : becoming a useful tool. All the bits are there it just does not work
- : in large environments which try to use Sun's client/server methods to
- : the max.
-
- What would you say must be added to the Calender (sic) Manager
- to make it useful (besides a spell checker)?
-
- nghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com
-
- Here is a list of enhancements/extensions to Calendar Manager that,
- IMHO, I think would be very useful:
-
- Calendar Manager should manage two kinds of entries: "Tasks" and
- "Notes".
-
- - Tasks are activities which require the user to do something.
- Examples included meetings, phone calls to make, etc. All Tasks
- have a field that can be checked off to indicate that the Task was
- completed (or in someway addressed).
-
- Tasks are classified into two categories:
-
- Appointments - Tasks which are to be executed at a specified time
- or during a specified period of time (equivalent to CM3.0
- Appointments).
-
- Actions - Tasks which are to be executed on a day, but do not have
- a specific time associated with them. Actions are clumped into
- two categories:
-
- Anchored - Actions which are listed on specific days
- (equivalent to CM3.0 ToDo items)
-
- Floating - Actions which always move with the current day.
- When a Floating Action is "checked" as done, it no longer
- "floats" (i.e., it becomes a completed Action).
-
- - Notes are notices to the user which do not require the user to do
- anything. Notes include things like holidays and birthdays.
-
- Notes are classified into two categories:
-
- Simple Notes - Notices associated with a particular day or days.
- Examples include holidays and birthdays.
-
- Reminder Notes - Notices about items that are due to the user.
- Reminder Notes automatically graduate to Floating Actions when
- the due date is over-run and the Reminder Note has not been
- checked off as having been attended to.
-
-
- - Allow Day/Week/Month Views of any combination of categories of
- Tasks (Appointments and Actions) and Notes (Simple Notes and
- Reminder Notes).
-
- - Allow "Priorities" to be added to any Task. Priorities could be
- expressed as a number, with "1" being very important and
- succeedingly higher numbers indicating less importance.
-
- - Allow sorting of Entries (Tasks and Notes) on any combinations of
- the fields which comprise the entry (e.g., prioritization or the
- contents of the "what" field) in ascending or descending order.
-
- - Allow the user to specify that for a repeating daily entry
- that weekends are not to be included.
-
- - Allow the user to specify a repeating entry like "the second Monday
- of every month".
-
- - Allow the user to control the access privileges (browse, insert,
- delete) of other users of only Appointments, or only Actions, or
- only Reminder Notes, or only Simple Notes or any combination
- thereof.
-
- - Allow the "author" of an entry to have "Modify" privileges.
-
- - Allow the user to specify a file as the database to be used for
- Calendar Manager. This would allow a user to keep and maintain
- personal calendars for different activities. For instance, if a
- user wanted to keep track of off-work activities, they wouldn't
- have to clutter up their work-related calendar. Being able to
- create a label which would be associated with the alternate
- database files would allow easy access via the "Browse" menu.
-
- - Allow specification of repeating Alarms. Basically, this is an
- Alarm which continues to go off at specified intervals until the
- user turns it off (at 10 minutes before a meeting, 5 minutes, 2
- minutes, 1 minute, zero hour; or every ten minutes; or etc...).
-
- That's a first crack at some useful capabilities of Calendar Manager
- that I believe would be very useful.
-
- Stephen
- --
- Stephen L Nicoud <stephen@boeing.com> bcstec!bcsaic!stephen
- Boeing Computer Services Research and Technology, Computer Science
- Bellevue, Washington USA
- "I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks."
-