[chandler-users] Preview Tracking Colleciton

[Ted Leung]

If you are following the cosmo-dev mailing list, you are probably  
seeing a lot of discussion about the dashboard, which is a list view  
plus some additional productivity affordances.

Ted

On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:

> Probably an important point to mention is that we are planning on  
> having a list view for Cosmo. We are still working out how much of  
> a list view we can get done in time but some work has certainly  
> started and we will be scoping this out in more detail over the  
> coming weeks. It seems to me that people are using the account  
> browser for this purpose right now because it's the only alternative.
>
> As far as the month view goes, we simply had to cut something and  
> we determined that having a week and day view were more widely  
> used. I certainly expect this to come up in dogfood feedback since  
> the month is useful in a number of circumstances. Again, hopefully  
> the list view will address some of the use cases where users are  
> viewing sparsely populated calendars.
>
> Cheers,
> Sheila
>
> On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
>
>> Interesting discussion...I agree with Pieter about the utility of  
>> a list
>> view and using the account browser for that for now if that is
>> relatively cheap to do in the short term. A list of view on Cosmo  
>> is on
>> my list of feedback items (which I suppose I should post  
>> sometime). Here
>> is what I think the current new user experience is for a casual
>> collaborator viewing the Preview Tracking Collection for the first  
>> time
>> (without other knowledge of the preview schedule): Cool...wait, there
>> are no events...is this working? Hmm, wonder when preview is...how  
>> come
>> there's no monthly view....
>>
>> A Chandler user will have benefit of the list view, and will not  
>> suffer
>> this potential confusion. But, hey, it's preview, I don't want to  
>> add to
>> the work pile...there are so many awesome new features and functions
>> already targeted for preview, it feels more like a 1.0. (That's a
>> compliment...just in case it didn't transmit.)
>>
>> Andre
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:26:57 -0800, "Mimi Yin"  
>> <mimi at osafoundation.org>
>> said:
>>> I think there's a difference between a Casual Collaborator and a
>>> Dogfooder.
>>>
>>> There are many features in the Chandler Desktop Test and  
>>> Experimental
>>> menus that are there precisely for the kind of use cases Pieter and
>>> Andre have been talking about, but we take care to keep them out of
>>> the way of 'mainstream' end-user workflows.
>>>
>>> I can only speak for myself, but it's not that I'm unconvinced of  
>>> the
>>> Account Browser's usefulness, it's merely a matter of creating the a
>>> shallow ramp to more sophisticated usage.
>>>
>>> Mimi
>>>
>>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/9/07, Pieter Hartsook <hartsook at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>>>> I recall that discussion going by either on the list or on irc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you decide to support that functionality by Preview? It  
>>>>> would be
>>>>> really useful for a Casual Collaborator looking for an item in a
>>>>> sparsely populated calendar, at least until we get a browser list
>>>>> view.
>>>>
>>>> i agree that it would be useful, but i don't think ppd is convinced
>>>> that using the account browser for any reason is an important  
>>>> casual
>>>> collaborator use case.
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