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An calender widget for your Android home screen.
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Date and event appearance confusing #315

Closed bushrang3r closed 5 years ago

bushrang3r commented 5 years ago

Days and events are separated by a line.

Mon

John's birthday Tue

As you can see, John's birthday looks like it's on Tuesday, but it's on Monday. It's visually confusing.

I think the event and the day should not have a line separating them as below.

Mon John's birthday

This clearly shows that John's birthday is on Monday.

yvolk commented 5 years ago

I agree that current design may be confusing for somebody. But that was designed many years ago and many users (including myself) are accustomed to this for a long time...

bushrang3r commented 5 years ago

Really? You agree that it's visually confusing, in other words, the UI design is flawed, but users are 'used to it' so you'll leave it as it is? In my mind there is no question that it should be changed. To me, it makes absolutely no logical sense to leave it as it is. But, this is your app. Seriously, this is a deal breaker for me. I would scrap the other apps I use and change to this if it weren't for the UI.

yvolk commented 5 years ago

I don't think it's so simple. As I see in GIT history, this design was created more than seven years ago, and I don't remember similar complains yet. This doesn't mean that this design shouldn't be changed. But this means for me that the decision shouldn't be taken lightly.

bushrang3r commented 5 years ago

I understand. Oh well, I don't suppose there will be anyone else coming in with the same opinion now if I'm the first one in 7 years. Shame. Thanks.

yvolk commented 5 years ago

As you can see on this screenshot, today is easily visible in the upcoming versio https://github.com/plusonelabs/calendar-widget/issues/124#issuecomment-526298994

I will think about an option to have Day Header separator above the header text.

yvolk commented 5 years ago

@bushrang3r I found an old issue that asks exactly for the same: #154 So I think that I will change placement of the "Day header separator" without any "options"...

bushrang3r commented 5 years ago

Thank you〜