[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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