[Design] [D/f] Mar-Apr 2006

[Mimi Yin]

Hi, see below :o)

On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Alec Flett wrote:

> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> WORKFLOW ISSUES
>> + I've been wanting collection overlays to be unique to the App  
>> area. Right now, collections overlays persist across App areas.
> I'm not sure I understand 'unique to the App area'? You mean if I  
> change the filter in the toolbar, then the overlays would reset  
> themselves somehow? or that the Calendar App area would have its  
> own set of overlays, and tasks would have another?

Yes, but I'm not sure about it. i think what I really want is some  
notion of spheres. So I can have 1 set of overlays for Work stuff  
(PPD, Work, Office) and 1 set of overlays for Home stuff.

>> + I never want to see my tasks lists overlayed. I guess I don't  
>> want to see task lists overlayed until we have some way to color- 
>> code task items in the table.
> Colorizing tasks in the table is not a hard task (I'd SWAG it  
> Small) - we could tackle it in Alpha3. It would be easier to  
> colorize the tasks than it would be to special-case Tasks to be non- 
> overlayed, or to have each App area have its own set of overlays.

I think coming up with a good visual design for this would be hard  
though. I would defer solving this problem until later. As I said  
above, I'm not sure I have the issue framed correctly yet.

>
> Alec

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