[Chandler-dev] d-click to pop up independent detail view

[Reid Ellis]

A couple of other ideas..

(1) control/command-i (a.k.a. Get Info) to open a new window [or maybe  
alt-enter on Windows and command-i on Mac to be platform-consistent  
but app-inconsistent (tbpcbai)]

(2) click+enter to edit lozenge [or click+F2 on Windows and click 
+Return on Mac tbpcbai]

Clicking on an already-selected lozenge (i.e. "slow double click") can  
be implemented in addition to one of the other solutions.

Note: double-clicking to edit a lozenge is standard on some existing  
calendar apps (in iCal at least. In Outlook it makes events look like  
Mail messages you have to explicitly save changes to; yuck!), so  
having a different behaviour will cause user confusion (that's not  
what I meant to do!).

Reid

On 24-Apr-08, at 3:30 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:
> Hi, Mimi
>
> To keep some of the unit tests going, I made option-double-click(*)  
> on Calendar lozenges do edit in place. Besides the button in the  
> detail view, a context menu or "real" menu would be easy to  
> implement, too.
>
> --Grant
>
> (*) a.k.a. alt-double-click on Windows/Linux.
>
> On 24 Apr, 2008, at 10:03, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> Today I d-clicked on an event lozenge to edit it and I got an  
>> independent detail view instead. While I think d-click on an item  
>> in the List View is relatively rare (except for users who know you  
>> can d-click on the Triage Status), d-click on events in the  
>> calendar is pretty standard.
>>
>> (My bad, I forgot about that case.)
>>
>> Has anyone else run into this? How bad is this? Perhaps we need to  
>> just suck it up and a button to the top of the detail view to make  
>> an independent window and leave d-click alone.
>>
>> Mimi