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

[Aparna Kadakia]

Yes Mimi, that's already logged and resolved fixed as of yesterday

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7773


On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Hi Andre,
>
> These are really helpful dogfooding notes. Please see in- 
> line...I've drafted you to log some bugs, 3 to be exact ;o)
>
> Aparna, can you scroll down? There's a question for you in bold.
>
> Thanks Andre! Mimi
>
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 8:45 PM, 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.
>
> Yes! I've experienced this as well. We do this in the Detail View  
> to make room for the edited on / sent on date/time, so I imagine we  
> can do this for the who column as well.
>
> Logged as: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9656
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, we don't have full keyboard support for all of the form  
> fields. This is a known issue and something we hope to address post- 
> preview.
>
>>
>> - 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.)
>
> Yup, I believe this is a known bug, but I can't seem to find it.  
> Aparna, am I just imagining this?
>
>>
>> - 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.
>
> Yup, part of the keyboard support mentioned above.
>
>> - 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.
>
> Ooh, I've noticed this when setting other attributes on the DV as  
> well. Andre, would you mind logging this as a bug?
>
>> 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.
>
> Being discussed in a separate thread.
>
>>
>> 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.)
>
> Being discussed in a separate thread.
>
>> - 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.
>
> Hmmm, we've been having other issues with the last modified by not  
> updating as well. Could you log this?
>
>>
>> - 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.
>
> Amen.
>
>>
>> 5. Sync
>>
>> - A "Last Sync Completed at [date/time]" on the status bar would  
>> be useful and reassuring.
>
> Per collection? As you switch from collection to collection? It's  
> currently in the Manage share dialog, which is pretty inaccessible.  
> I will ask Morgen if we can have it in the status bar instead.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Hi Andre, the Date sorting is rather complex in that it's not  
> always displayed the date last modified. We've had quite a lot of  
> discussion around this on the design list and it's something we  
> plan to address in a more top-down way, post-preview. The short  
> version is: Yes sorting by date last modified should be supported :)
>
> I've logged this as: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/ 
> show_bug.cgi?id=9658
>
>> - 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.
>
> Please log :)
>
>> - 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.
>
> Part of keyboard support mentioned above.
>
>>
>> - 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.)
>
> Yes, we are all in agreement that having multiple views on the same  
> data is useful. There are a number of outstanding bugs on the view  
> selector and so we've decided to move it to the Tools menu where  
> people are less likely to trip over it. Feel free to continue using  
> it from the Tools menu however, it's definitely something we want  
> to understand better and re-address post-preview.
>
>> 7. In/Out Collections
>>
>> - It would be helpful if Item-Remove actually removed items from  
>> the In and Out collections.
>
> Huh, it should work. Please log a bug. It would be helpful to know  
> a little more about the item you tried to remove.
> Is it shared?
> Is it in other collections?
> How did it end up in In? Did you drag it in there? Did you download  
> it from your INBOX?, etc.
>
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>> Thanks, Andre
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