[chandler-users] [d/f] Assorted Usage Notes

[Andre Mueninghoff]

So, I sent my first email from Chandler. Then changed the status of the
item to LATER. The Update icon appeared, I clicked it, and another copy
of my email was sent to the list. I'm not sure how this is useful. This
scenario goes to my point in my initial email of the potential value of
being able to selectively prevent some updates to items from being sent
to others (or to oneself).

Thanks, Andre


Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I would like to offer my list of random nitnoid feedback notes that I have accumulated while using Chandler. I primarily sync with myself across my home and office instances of Chandler. These are in no particular order. I apologize for not having searched in bugzilla for existing coverage of these items. Also, some of these may be bugs, but I defer to the Chandler QA.
> 
> 1. Contacts
> 
> -When contacts are implemented, it would be helpful if there was a nickname field for each contact and the option to display the nickname in the Who column in the triage table view. I typically drag the right-hand border of the Who column to the left to show only the first name/first part of the email address displayed there.
> 
> 2. Detail View
> 
> - For an event-stamped item, when tabbing from title in the DV, there is no indication when one is in the all-day field.
> 
> - For an event-stamped item, in the Location field, the Enter key does not work as expected to populate the field from the previous values list that opens when typing. (Love that type-ahead feature though.)
> 
> - When in the summary/note of an item, when I next use the tab key, I would prefer the focus to move next to the title of the same item not into the side bar to the name of the collection of which the item is a member.
> 
> - After commiting edits to an item's title with the Enter key, the focus moves to the Summary area of the item and selects all text in the Summary section. I would prefer at a minimum for the select-all not to happen next to avoid being regularly one stray key stroke away from potentially disasterous data loss. 
> 
> 3. Master password
> 
> - More experimentation is required, but it seems to me that if I se the timeout of the master password to 180 minutes that it will not timeout at all as long as the OS (WinXP) is active. For example, hibernating my laptop will trigger the timeout, that is, I am prompted again for the password when I unhibernate my laptop.
> 
> 4. Edit/Updates
> 
> - It seems to me there would be value in a counterpart to the "Apply Changes" functionality, that is, a "Send Changes" function that would permit the selective sending of field-level changes, or minimally, a Don't Send Updates option at the item level. (I think this may well have been covered in the specs and on the lists, but I have not read all of the traffic, so sending this anyway.)
> 
> - In the DV, using the delete key to delete the leading char (even if a space) in the summary of an item does not result in the byline changing to indicate "edited by XXX on current date/time" or a change to the Last Modified Date shown in the table.
> 
> - At some point in the future, it would be useful to have more than only one level of undo (ctrl-Z on Windows) when editing text fields.
> 
> 5. Sync
> 
> - A "Last Sync Completed at [date/time]" on the status bar would be useful and reassuring.
> 
> 6. Table View
> 
> - When sorting on the date(last modified) column, I would prefer that the first click in the column title resulted in a reverse chronological order. I am most frequently looking for more recently created/edited items.
> 
> - Clicking in the "empty space" in the vertical scroll bar seems to cause the table view to jump by a number of items that is relative to the vertical location in the vertical scroll bar that I click. Perhaps this is a Windows XP thing or something, but my expectation is that the list will scroll up or down by only one length (of the number of items able to be displayed) regardless of where I cliick in the vertical scroll bar above or below the vertical scroll widget thing.
> 
> - When in the focus is in the table view and commiting an edit to the title of a recurring event, the All-This-Cancel dialogue is not in the focus. One is forced to use the mouse to select the desired choice.
> 
> - I found it very useful to have the ability to view calendar items also in a table view in addition to the calendar date view, and I would prefer to have it returned. (I guess I missed the list discussion where it was decided to remove it or something.)
> 
> 7. In/Out Collections
> 
> - It would be helpful if Item-Remove actually removed items from the In and Out collections.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
> Thanks, Andre
> 
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