Is a Weekly View planned?

[tramsauer]

The documentation states:

default_calendar_view = monthly - Default view of the calendar. Can be monthly or daily. Weekly view is not supported.

Also the roadmap does not mention a 'weekly view'.

For me personally, a weekly view is crucial in a calendar app to plan the...week. So the questions would be:

--> Is a weekly view planned for some coming release? 🙏
--> If not, is discarded due to difficulties in implementation or just not considered yet?

[tramsauer]

This could also be included in a list of ux/ui improvements like #115 .

[anufrievroman]

It's just that considering the terminal UI, the weekly view is quite similar to the daily view, which is not really a daily view :) That's why it's there's this compromise view. Would you like to have a view where 7 days are like horizontal segments or how do you imagine it?

[tramsauer]

Thank you for the swift response!

I normally think of a weekly view as showing time blocks vertically per day.
That view helps me in planning/finding gaps and overlaps.
It would actually be closer to the monthly view, but with one row and the events spanning certain heigths on a fixed time grid depending on their duration.

An example from Thunderbird:

[lkraav]

I've found Gnome Evolution's columnized weekly view more space-efficient

[tramsauer]

@lkraav thanks for tuning in!
I myself would need the time grid to be aligned horizontally 😄 but I see the point of space-efficiency.

As compromise also a 3day version of my proposed Weekly View could be an option.. Or even an configurable amount of days being presented in vertical next to each other.

[anufrievroman]

One problem with this view is that currently the events don't really have "time", we just display start time as a part of the title, but we don't keep track of duration of events. I suppose before implementing this view, we'd need to consider if we want to fully mode to ics based events and abandon native events.

Anyways, maybe at the beginning it could be just a 7 columns view for people who have lots of events per day. The times will be a bit messed up, but we will later figure it out.