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

[Mimi Yin]

Yup, sounds good.

On Feb 4, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Grant Baillie wrote:

> 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.
>
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