[Design] Fwd: [Dev] Chandler 0.6 new user experience

[Mimi Yin]

> Adding a recurring event is confusing.  I double click at the top  
> of today, and get a new event dialog in the sidebar which is good.   
> I then choose 'daily' from the recurrence drop down list (I'd have  
> liked an option for 'on alternate days' or similar, but understand  
> that that's an unusual requirement; 'weekdays' would also have been  
> useful).  I click on the content box to edit that, then realise  
> that I need to change the title, so I click on that.  At this  
> point, I get a dialog asking me if I want to change all future  
> occurrences of the event.  As far as I'm concerned, I'm still  
> working on the first addition of it, so of course I do.  I'm then  
> asked again when I go back to editing the content.  I think the  
> question should only ever be asked if the item has been 'closed'  
> since it was created, and even then it should only be asked once  
> per editing session.

Yes, this does seem like a bug. Jeffrey, have we discussed this  
already? I can't remember. Is it difficult to make the dialog not pop- 
up if you haven't clicked off the item yet (when you first create it)?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jules <j_chandler at dsf.org.uk>
> Date: January 18, 2006 1:29:40 AM PST
> To: dev at osafoundation.org
> Subject: [Dev] Chandler 0.6 new user experience
>
> Hi, just thought you guys would appreciate some feedback on the 0.6  
> release.  I last looked at chandler some time between the 0.1 and  
> 0.2 releases, so this is an almost-fresh perspective on it for  
> you.  Apologies if any of the below are known problems; in that  
> case just take them as suggestions that the problem is important.   
> OS is Windows XP SP2; a Linux-based server is available for  
> information sharing (I believe this is achieved through WebDAV,  
> which I have no experience of, but am confident I can set up).   
> User is an experienced developer looking for a suitable task list &  
> calendar application for a small workgroup (3 individuals working  
> for a small IT services company).
>
> First thing I notice is that startup is very slow.  On my PII-400,  
> it took about 20 seconds for the splash screen to appear, and well  
> over a minute for the application to load.  Memory usage is also  
> very high: about 75MB without anything added to the calendar.  For  
> an app that I would want to leave running constantly, this is just  
> too much.  Combine with 40MB for a web browser & another 30 for e- 
> mail and my 256MB of system RAM is starting to run out already.  If  
> e-mail could be added to Chandler without a noticeable increase in  
> the memory footprint it wouldn't be hideously bad, but it's still a  
> little high.
>
> When I delete the "Welcome to Chandler" appointment, the  
> information on it in the side bar isn't removed.
>
> Creating a new item for the task list is not very intuitive.  The  
> tick mark in the button to add it to the list seems to imply that  
> the item has already been performed.  If I press this button, then  
> press it again (because a tick mark appeared next to the item and I  
> thought I'd done something wrong) and then try to do something  
> else, it seems that the item is lost and I have to re-enter it.  A  
> "this item is not stored anywhere, do you really want to abandon  
> it?" dialog would be useful. [added later: somehow I've found the  
> item again.  It isn't entirely clear to me where it has been in the  
> meantime, but it does seem to have worked somewhat.]
>
> Somehow I seem to have created new items in the "Trash" folder,  
> which I then have to move to "My tasks".  Not sure what's going on  
> there, but it doesn't seem sensible, whatever it is.  Perhaps a  
> confirmation dialog if the user tries to create something in the  
> trash folder would be sensible?
>
> I have two "Untitled" items in my Trash folder because of this, but  
> can't seem to delete them from it.  I assume this is because delete  
> works by moving stuff into Trash.  It should change behaviour when  
> the item is already in Trash so that the item is totally purged.   
> It would also be useful to have "Empty Trash" as a context menu  
> item if you right-click on Trash.
>
> Printing of task lists isn't implemented.  This effectively rules  
> out using the current version for my purposes, but I suppose it's  
> now a priority task for future, unless I can achieve what's  
> necessary using the calendar.  I'll switch to that approach.
>
> Adding a recurring event is confusing.  I double click at the top  
> of today, and get a new event dialog in the sidebar which is good.   
> I then choose 'daily' from the recurrence drop down list (I'd have  
> liked an option for 'on alternate days' or similar, but understand  
> that that's an unusual requirement; 'weekdays' would also have been  
> useful).  I click on the content box to edit that, then realise  
> that I need to change the title, so I click on that.  At this  
> point, I get a dialog asking me if I want to change all future  
> occurrences of the event.  As far as I'm concerned, I'm still  
> working on the first addition of it, so of course I do.  I'm then  
> asked again when I go back to editing the content.  I think the  
> question should only ever be asked if the item has been 'closed'  
> since it was created, and even then it should only be asked once  
> per editing session.
>
> The way calendars are printed is next to useless.  The first  
> problem is that  'all day' events are not included.  Also, the  
> event details aren't included, only the little marker that shows up  
> on the calendar with the item's title.  I'd also like to be able to  
> print out just a single day's appointments, in a kind of expanded  
> form of the summary that appears in the view in the bottom left of  
> the Chandler window, but including all the details of the item  
> rather than just its time & title.
>
> At this point I realise that Chandler is not yet ready for my  
> application and uninstall it.  I hope this feedback can help  
> improve the next version, though, and look forward to trying it!
>
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