[Design] Suggestion for Dashboard's general layout

Philippe Bossut pbossut at osafoundation.org
Thu Jan 12 17:16:09 PST 2006


selva r wrote:

> I'm making a modification to my previous suggestion given below on a 
> proposal for Dashboard's general layout. 
>
> Since depicting collections probably will not require a lot of space 
> for most small collections, the pull out panel on the left side of the 
> main Dashboard window might be divided into a top and bottom half 
> along the middle with a demarcating line.  The top half of this pull 
> out panel could be used for depicting collections. 
>
> The bottom half could be used for previewing the text of the item 
> selected within any of the three frames of the main Dashboard window.  
> This way users could preview the initial portion of texts from email 
> items, memo items, and task items without having to double click the 
> item into the second level Dashboard window.

I'm curious Selva: have you ever downloaded and ran Chandler? I mean: it 
looks like you don't know about the existence the Detail View, Summary 
View and Sidebar...

If you haven't, please go to our dowwnload page: 
http://chandler.osafoundation.org/

Cheers,
- Philippe


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