[Chandler-dev] Regarding bug 11987 - Move "Month/Week/Day" View selector back to View menu

[Andre Mueninghoff]

Hi Mimi,

My apologies, too many words. Yes, in the direction of your 
clarification about the bug below, I was trying to suggest that when the 
Dashboard collection is selected, that the active (not greyed) menu 
choices should be:

View>>
- All
- Starred
- Calendar>>Triage Table

...that is, to parallel the toolbar...with the idea that selecting the 
path View>>Calendar>>Triage Table would have the same effect as pressing 
the Calendar toolbar button, as now implemented, and ideally also 
actually "pressing" the Calendar toolbar button for the user.

-Andre

Mimi Yin wrote:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> I'm not sure I'm following your description.
> 
> I think there was a misunderstanding about that bug, which I've 
> re-opened. The menu structure should be:
> 
> View>>
> - All
> - Starred
> - Calendar>>Month / Week / Day
> ------------------
> 
> Mimi
> 
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I just tried this out, and was immediately surprised that from the 
>> Dashboard/All view the sub menu items for View > Calendar were greyed 
>> out. I was expecting to have ability to choose a sub menu item to 
>> change the view to Dashboard/Calendar. Many programs have both icon 
>> and menu paths to various views and functions. I believe the current 
>> implementation is confusing and will be a barrier to discovery.
>>
>> I suggest adding and making active a Triage Table View menu choice to 
>> the sub menu under View > Calendar for use in the Dashboard 
>> collection. That is, the Triage Table View sub menu choice would be 
>> active only when pressing View > Calendar from the Dashboard/All view. 
>> I believe this would help to clarify for new users the behavior 
>> difference, when pressing the Calendar toolbar button, between being 
>> in the Dashboard collection and a user collection. Certainly, I'm 
>> influenced by having used to date the current Tools > Select View menu 
>> items, but I believe they clarify rather than obscure Chandler's 
>> features. I am not suggesting at this time that a Calendar/Triage 
>> Table View be made available for personal collections due to the open 
>> issue of master occurrences being displayed also and the confusion 
>> that can cause. (Even though I believe this should be a 1.x feature. I 
>> have a user story to support this.)
>>
>> I didn't reopen this bug, but will do so if there is agreement.
>>
>> -Andre
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