[Chandler-dev] Re: Last Alpha 3 bug needs a question answered: What commands are active when a modeless dialog is active?

[Morgen Sagen]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> It seems like unless we think there are workflow reasons to keep  
> all commands active, we should keep things simple and make the  
> 'Subscribe' and 'Share' dialogs modal.

Bummer, and after all the work we did to make them asynchronous...

> The one workflow issue that might arise is that users may launch  
> the 'Share' dialog 1st BEFORE creating and selecting a new  
> collection in the sidebar to publish.
>
> We may want to add a pull-down to the publish dialog so that users  
> can select: New collection or any other collection from the sidebar  
> AFTER launching the 'Share' dialog. The collection selected by  
> default should still be whatever was selected in the sidebar when  
> the user launched the 'Share' dialog.
>

A pulldown listing all collections in the sidebar wouldn't be  
difficult.  Having the "New collection" option doesn't make sense to  
me though, because the user won't have an opportunity to name this  
new collection unless we add another field to the dialog (or pop up a  
second dialog), and therefore the subscribers will just get an  
"Untitled" collection.  I suppose publishing an empty collection  
could make sense in some situations, but then again I can't think of  
one at the moment.  Do you have an example?

~morgen