[Design] Item tray concept

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

Like the idea of a "tray". Note that Aperture has a similar concept with 
"stacks". Again, a way to visually group elements represented by their 
icon. It's a natural concept for pictures though since it's the way 
photographers have been selecting ektas on lighboxes since decades...

Once in the "tray", elements could be selected all and turned into a 
collection (or a project once we polish that concept), moved to an 
existing collection or simply removed from the tray. Seems like a good 
buffer for gathering things for a particular project. May be that's a 
design idea we should keep in mind when we'll flesh out the project idea 
in Chandler.

Cheers,
- Philippe

Brendan O'Connor wrote:

> the picasa picture tray is also good for novices who are uncomfortable 
> with control-clicking to select multiple items.  (ctrl-click is pretty 
> fragile -- one misclick and you lose the selection you've built up!)
>  
> brendan
>
>  
> On 1/24/06, *Jeffrey Harris* <jeffrey at osafoundation.org 
> <mailto:jeffrey at osafoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Folks,
>
>     Picasa has an interesting feature called the picture tray (see
>     attached
>     image).  I wonder if Chandler might want to consider implementing
>     something similar?
>
>     Basically, the tray is like an always visible clipboard which can hold
>     multiple items.  There are a couple of ways this seems useful to me.
>
>     1) In Thunderbird, I often want to focus on 2-3 items, but I don't
>     want
>     to create a special folder for those mail messages.  This would be
>     a way
>     to focus on a few items for a short time.
>
>     2) As we develop UI for building complex relationships between
>     items, a
>     tray could be a locus for drag and drop, right click options, and
>     keyboard shortcuts.
>
>     I imagine that we'd use icons for different items, with an image of a
>     contact if one's related to the item and stamp overlays (see attached
>     picture).
>
>     Sincerely,
>     Jeffrey
>
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