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

[carlos duarte]

yeah, cool! i'm ready for it..

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> 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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