[chandler-users] Mis-directed focus

[Graham Perrin]

John Leeming wrote:
> 
> … the focus (if that's the right term) jumps not to the entry I've just
> created but to whatever task or event was selected in the dashboard before
> I created the new event.
> 
> This behaviour is confusing and inconsistent with the behavoiur if I'd
> created the event without having done a search first.
> 
> It means I often overwrite the dates of some other event thinking I'm
> entering the date of the new event.
> 

Broadening the discussion for a moment: 

Chandler Desktop's occasional, unpredictable, sometimes deliberate ignorance
of my selection is my #1 gripe with the application. A click on a collection
does not select what I clicked. Responses to double-clicks are surprising.
In triage table view, Chandler Desktop's highlight is _contrary_ to my
intention/selection. Detail view too often details something _other_ than
what I'm working on. And so on. 

Concerning these behaviours I was creating bugs and requests for enhancement
in Bugzilla, but then I encountered at least one 2006 comment suggesting (if
I'm not mistaken) that some of the behaviours that I now find
strange/contrary are: by design.

Since then I have noted a few more problems, but for as long as a few design
issues are clarified, I'm refraining from entering all in OSAF Bugzilla. In
the meantime
<https://hub.chandlerproject.org/pim/collection/22402db8-d747-11dd-d846-0016cb98d507?ticket=h58zjd4i40>
reflects some work in progress, including some buggy focus behaviours, but
notes here are incomplete so please don't treat these as gospel. 

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John, returning now to your 
/f 
find approaches: please be aware of bugs 12497, 12498 and 12499. I gather
that at least one of these relates to buggy behaviour in relation to a found
selection. 

I shan't attempt to abstract the various symptoms but one comment in
particular <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12497#c9>
reminds me that my introductions to 'Remove', 'Delete' and Trash were
terribly confused by Chandler Desktop behaviour.

My lesson learned: 

*	be careful when actioning things that are found!

YMMV.

Bottom line: I'm aware of the limited resources that are available to
developers during the re-architecture :) so whilst I'm bugging or at least
noting things, I'm not expecting a rapid response to anything bugged.

Best regards
Graham
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