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

[Mimi Yin]

Okay, I think I understand what you're getting at.

Really what we need to do is straighten out our View Selector versus  
Kind Filter story.

I believe the problem we're running into is that the Dashboard  
collection that can't be viewed as a Calendar. (User-defined  
collections can display in 'Triage List View" in the Calendar app  
just fine I think.)

For now however, I'm proposing we skirt the view-selector issue by  
organizing the View menu this way:

View>>
All
Starred
Calendar
--------------
Clean up
--------------
Month View
Week View
Day View
--------------
Next Week
Previous Week
.
.
.

Month/Week/Day Views would be greyed out except when user is looking  
at a user-defined collection in the Calendar App Area.

Mimi

On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:

> 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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