Calendar:Feature Implementations:Drag'n'Drop

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Basic overview

Drag and drop falls into 2 basic categories: (1) internal to the app and (2) internal to/from external. Drag and Drop has the advantage that it provides shortcuts for common tasks with absolutely minimum UI. Overall, DND should be available for the following actions:

Internal to the app

• To create and event
• To modify an event's start and/or end
• To schedule time for a task or unscheduled event
• To change the calendar of an event?

Internal/External

• Dropping ics data should import the data into the selected calendar
• Dropping ics files should subscribe to those files
• Dropping urls should subscribe to the file at that location
• Dropping mail should create a task from that email (follow-up)
• Dropping (natural language) text describing an event should create that event
• Dragging calendar data should export it as iCalendar and as natural language

Related bugs

• Bug 247764:Drag emails to tasks/times
• Bug 179484:Change an event's calendar via DND
• Bug 244459:Drag ics attachments from email to calendar

Design/Implementation status on the CVS trunk as of 2006/7/18

• Drag and drop is available for creating and modifying an event
• Dragging calendar data from the month or multiweek views exports it in iCalendar format.