As we’re closing in on a simple but functional calendar for Kube, I’d like to share our progress with you.
We’ve decided to start with a week view, as that seems to be a good compromise between information density and enough information for day-to-day use.
We will eventually complement that with a month view, which is probably all we need for the time being.
An agenda view will probably rather become part of a separate view, showing you upcoming events, tasks that need to be taken care of, important emails, ….
Anyhow, here’s the week view:
This view is based on two models, one for full-day events (on top) and one for the rest below. The models each query for all events that overlap with the time-range shown, which we can do efficiently due to the work of Rémi on the calendar queries. That means we really only have to deal with a few events in memory, which we can easily do on the spot. The models then do their magic to calculate the position and sizes of all the necessary boxes, so all we have to do in QML is paint them. This now also includes recurring events, although we’re not dealing with exceptions just yet.
The colors of the events are taken from the calendar, which gets synchronized via CalDAV. This is a tradeoff design wise because you can bet that those colors will not match Kube in any way. But we decided that Kube should work well with other devices and clients, and the color is a major factor to recognize immediately what belongs where. Perhaps we can still make the colors a bit easier on the eye by desaturating them a bit, we’ll have to see.
Otherwise there is dimming of the past, and a blue line indicating the current time. Simple and without distractions.
The next steps are going to be adding a detail view, as well as a simple editor, and then we should already have the basics for your daily needs.
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