Streamlined date/event insertion UI

[SkyeDragon (Skye)]

Problem

Users (including myself ) often get confused regarding the insert date UI (core) and the insert event UI (official plugin). (They even both refer to “event”)

Current UI

Insert date/time UI:

Insert event UI:

Proposed solutions

• In an ideal world, perhaps these could be merged into a single button, which prompts the user if they are trying to make an event or a time. (This would require a lot of code rework though)
• More simply, if the event button was directly adjacent to the date/time button, instead of hidden under the more gear it would probably alert the user there are two different flows available. (Have not looked into if this is possible, but seems easier implementation-wise)

Related threads / issues

Creating events doesn't respect user's 12 hour time locale

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Move Create Event (and others) out of the cog icon?

Is there any way to move the “create event” link out of the cog icon and onto the main composer bar? Also I think it’s confusing to have the event AND the “insert date/time” icon, so it’d be nice to remove that too.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

A nice thing is that @chapoi has some time earmarked soon for looking at the composer toolbar.

I agree with the feedback, even I get confused about the two different “create event” buttons.

I wonder if one option here is something like this?

We would probably need some new core primitives to support this and new extension points, but it is certainly way clearer.

[SkyeDragon (Skye)]

@sam

A nice thing is that @chapoi has some time earmarked soon for looking at the composer toolbar.

Nice!

@sam

I wonder if one option here is something like this?

Yes, I like your dropdown idea ^.^