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

[Grant Baillie]

This should all be straightforward to implement. There should probably  
be keyboard equivalents (and/or mnemonics) for the new menu items in  
#3. Personally, I like the straightforwardness of Cmd/Ctrl-R for  
reply, Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-R for reply all, and Cmd/Ctrl-F for forward.

--Grant

On 1 Feb, 2008, at 17:51, Mimi Yin wrote:

> 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.