[Design] Re: Clarification

[Mimi Yin]

Hi John,

Thx for writing this up...see in-line below.

Mimi

On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:04 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> Hi Mimi:
>
> Does this describe what you mean:
>
> Whenever an "Out of the Box" collection is selected, the summary  
> displays only that collection, no matter which other collections  
> are checked.

Yup

> If so, then what about when you have multiple "Out of the Box"  
> collections selected? Does the summary view display the last  
> selected collection?

You can't. The checkbox-rollover / overlay widget is disabled for  
OOTB collection.

> As an alternative to graying out the checked collections when an  
> "Out of the Box" collection is selected, how about unchecking them  
> (unselecting "Out of the Box" collections would restore the  
> previous checked state).

What is your thinking behind this proposal? Currently when focus  
shifts from one pane to another (e.g. sidebar to summary pane and  
vice versa), we don't get rid of the selection, instead we dim it out.

> Another possibility I've been thinking about is having two separate  
> tables in the sidebar, one for the "Out of the Box" collections and  
> one for the user collections.  This makes it really easy to put a  
> divider line between them (other options have a host of messy  
> complications). At first I thought two tables would be difficult  
> because they each have a separate selection. However two separate  
> selections might be just what you want: When the "Out of the Box"  
> table has the focus the "User collection" table selection is drawn  
> lighter. Whichever table has the focus displays it's selected (and  
> checked in the case of  the "User collections") collections in the  
> summary view.
>
> It also makes it easier to deal with reordering collections in the  
> tables if and when we allow that -- you're limited to reordering  
> collections within each table but you can't move collections  
> between tables.

Cool. That sounds like it matches the user mental model.