iCal Lion makes it very hard to read overlapping events: often one can only easily read one of them. How can we get the interface in iCal for Snow Leopard and before when they were placed size by size rather than on top, and thus obliterated.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I'm struggling with that as well. I have a lot of overlapping events I need to keep track of and I can't read them!! The event that lays behind the top one won't even come forward when I click on it!!!! So, I'm stuck having to swtich from the weekly view. Also on the month view - it will no longer show most my daily events. Before Lion, the events would be crammed in there so that I could see them from the month view - now I only see 5 events or so!!!! Not happy with any of iCal's changes - obviously it was redesigned by someone who either didn't use iCal or who had a very light schedule!!!
Yes, I cannot read my overlapping events. Is there a solution to this problem?
The new text options are brilliant: text size. But, those which are not it yet are worse. For example the color of the text is illegible, I do not even imagine a person with vision troubles
I am also looking for a solution which would allow displaying overlapping or simultaneous events the way it used to work.
Me too. I find it very irritating. Not easy or impossible to ready.
I just provided feedback to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Use Terminal.app to turn on the iCal Debug Menu - Then in iCal go to the debug menu > Top Sekret (sic) > Uncheck "use iPad style event layout." This was orginally posted by Vandozza 24th Sept 2011. |
WOW!!! Sensational. That worked perfectly. Thanks very much!
(Should I mention
defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 0 |
to turn it off?)
JK
well done to you both ! Indeed these two work perfectly. Many thanks
Thank you - this is somewhat helpful. It allows me to see all of my overlapping appointments by shrinking the horizontal real estate of each one so that they all fit across, even if you can only see one letter of the text of each appointment. I am wondering, though, if there is a way to make it work like it used to--where the appointments overlap horizontally so there is more visible text for each, but you can bring any of them to the front by clicking on it? That was a lot easier because it allowed me to see the text of any given appointment with a single click. DK
Slight efficiency gain can be had by using the direct defaults write command for the Top Sekret menu item - saves you turning the Debug menu on and off. I found it in the com.apple.ical.plist:
Overlap on:
defaults write com.apple.iCal CalUIDebugUseIPadStyleEventLayout 1
Overlap off:
defaults write com.apple.iCal CalUIDebugUseIPadStyleEventLayout 0
Makes it much easier to roll out to multiple machines via Remote Desktop, too 😉
Sean
Helps, indeed! Paste second line in Terminal app (find this in Utilities), then open Ical, it shows the Debug option in the top menu line, then proceed as given in earlier hint. Close Ical, reopen: there is you new lay-out!
iCal Lion makes it very hard to read overlapping events
