[chandler-users] top 10 list of the most important usability issues to get right

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for writing this up. We will be opening up discussion on  
prioritizing user feedback in the coming weeks. So stay tuned for  
more conversations on the list.

More in-line...

On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:35 PM, carlos duarte wrote:

> for those on this list, and for hamstar in particular,
>
> i submit for your consideration, to be included in the "next
> steps"/"top 10 list of the most important usability issues to get
> right", the following suggestions:
>
> 1.-add a preference so that you can change the day on which the week
> starts (say, from "sunday" to "monday"), independent of language or
> locale.

Agreed. This is one of our more oft-requested features. I've upped  
the priority on the bug: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=11038
>
> 2.-nomenclature suggestion: tasks can be "added" to several different
> collections; but when a task belonging to "collection a" gets switched
> to "collection b", i suggest that we henceforth say that the task is
> "changed" to "collection b" -- instead of using the word "moved".
> rationale: when you hear someone say "i'm moving tasks around", she
> means moving them in time, not in categorization-space.
>
> 3.-there needs to be a simple way to change tasks from collection a to
> b. yes, i already tried changing collections through copypaste and i
> can sort-of understand how it works now, its far from intuitive, as
> well as far from easy. if you want to change "task-x" from "collection
> a" to "collection b", it should be achieved only through these three
> simple methods:
>
> a)cut and paste. cutting and pasting a task between different
> collections should accomplish the obvious. when you "cut" something,
> it should be visually represented by having it temporarily "dissapear"
> into the clipboard; having tasks not dissapear when you "cut them",
> jarrs --very severely-- with my expectations of the "cut" behaviour.
> (sidenote: regardless of whether the "duplicate" menu entry should be
> kept, copy and paste should duplicate your tasks just the same way --
> more steps than duplicate, but easier for noobs and grandmas).

Cut and Paste should work today the way you describe. If not, you've  
run into a bug!

>
> b)dragging to the "collection list". drag "task-x" from where it
> currently is, to a collection in the "collection list" part of the
> ui.. the receiving collection pops up a little menu that lets you
> choose between:
>         "move to collection_name"
>         "add to collection_name"
>
> c)rightclick cascading menu. when you rightclick "task-x", a menu pops
> out that goes like this:
>    menu >  new
>                 cut
>                 copy
>                 -etc.-
>                 move to collection >   collection_name a
>                                                 collection_name b
>                                                 collection_name c
>                                                 collection_name d
>
>               add to collection >       collection_name a
>                                                 collection_name b
>                                                 collection_name c
>                                                 collection_name d
>
> 4.-on the bottom left side, where the two small calendars are, there's
> a middle button that says "today"; and there are two pointers there,
> left and right. well, these slope downward. i believe for some reason
> the images are squished.
>
> thanks!
>
> -carlos
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