Comments on: New Google Calendar Gadget - YAGCG

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:44:53 +0000

Would this work on google sidebar as well? How is this managed?

By: Allan

Allan — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:14:27 +0000

Great gadget! However, it would be cool if it was possible to change the height of the gadget (i.e. the number of events).

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By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:03:14 +0000

Hmm.. Time for google to give more API. That’s frustrating.

Wording looks good.

By: Bernie Thompson

Bernie Thompson — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:36:19 +0000

Yes, the login behavior is going to follow that pattern — it’s tied to how Google’s embedded calendar widget works.

One thing that’ll be done to ease this is a quick link to open Gcal in another window (and thus refresh the cookie particular to the embedded view).

Right now, I’m looking at having links above the agenda:

“Today” to reset the agenda view back to having today’s events at the top
“Full View” to open gcal in a new page/tab
“Quick Add” to add an event

Wording look right?

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:45:46 +0000

Noticing a login issue: the login timeout seems not to be the usual several weeks the google cookie lasts, but just for one session.

When I run firefox, YAGCG says I don’t have permission to view calendars. I go to gcal - which shows up fine without login challenge. Hit back & refresh - now YAGCG works fine and will continue to do so until I close firefox. Close & immediately restart firefox, and we’re back at square 1.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:23:53 +0000

So much better in color! Thanks!

Another suggestion: Give me a setting to control the height - right now it’s huge. Since it’s scrollable, I’d want to set it to about 5 lines. I’m all about minimal default footprint with explorable interfaces.

By: Bernie Thompson

Bernie Thompson — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:20:47 +0000

Great feedback! The color-per-calendar enhancement is checked in! (it will make it to everyone as Google’s caches refresh).

The “Today” button and extra help for adding calendars are great ideas that I’ll look at now.

Some of the others that involve formatting inside the scrolling agenda view might not be doable — I’m limited by what the Google widget I’m calling can do.

Thanks again! Glad this is helping with some of your long-standing issues with other gcal gadgets!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:19:32 +0000

Another tiny nit: since days have a different background, I don’t think the day headers need to be bold.

That may just be me because overuse of bold is one of my peeves. If normal weight doesn’t distinguish headers enough, maybe a slight outdent?