[Chandler-dev] Pared down Desktop UI - Part 1

Mimi Yin mimi at osafoundation.org
Fri Feb 1 17:51:39 PST 2008


We've talked a lot in the past few months about paring down the user  
interface to lighten up and reduce the number of concepts new users  
need to understand. Here is a first proposal for addressing some of  
these ramp up issues.

1. New App Bar: All, Starred, Calendar
+ Removed Mail
+ Turned Tasks into Starred
+ Updated the All-Sun icon to red so that it's different from the  
Starred icon

2. Remove New, Reply, Reply All, Forward buttons

3. Add Reply, Reply All, Forward to the Item menu as a separate  
section under the stamping menu items

4. Rename Triage button to Clean up.

5. Move quick entry field to the middle between Sync and Cleanup and  
Send/Update on the right. Nice to have: Fudge it so that OOTB, the  
Clean up button is above the Triage Status column and the Send/Update  
button is left-aligned with the Detail View.

6. Dashboard collection icon stays the same across all 3 app areas  
and is replaced with an actual dashboard icon.

7. Task stamp is now Star stamp. (I will be posting a blog entry to  
explain the motivation behind this shortly.) This means the following:
+ Task column header changes to Star column header
+ Task column icon changes to Stars
+ Markup bar Task icon changes to Star
+ Help string, Tooltip and (Context) Menu text changes to:
- Star this item
- Remove star

All of the artwork is ready to go.

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