[Design] [D/F] Chander 0.7 Alpha 3 & 4, July - Sept 2006

[Mimi Yin]

Thanks for writing these up Priss, there are a bunch of good issues  
in here that we need to tackle in the Beta timeframe...

On Sep 11, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Priscilla Chung wrote:

> This is collection of random notes from July till early September  
> 2006. Please note I tried to put some of the more recent activity  
> at the top of my notes. I started with comments from a more recent  
> build. The most recent build I have now is dated on 9/10/06 0.7  
> Alpha 4.
>
> For more details: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
> DogFoodChandlerZeroDotSevenAlphaThreeAndFour
>
> Here are some top issues I ran into:
>    + First impressions of 0.7 Alpha4 and some struggles with the  
> dashboard.
>       + Traveled to the east coast and did not use timezone support
>       + What is the default sort when I click from one collection  
> to another?

It should be Triage status. But there are a couple of other issues. e.g.

+ Should we preserve sort order as you navigate across App Areas?  
That depends...
- When you go from All to Tasks, are you filtering down All to just  
look at Tasks? in which case you'd want to preserve Sort order.
- Or are you switching modes? e.g. I was Processing new stuff that  
was coming in (Sort by Triage Status). Now I'm going to Review my  
tasks (Sort by Tickler Date).

+ We should probably preserve sort order on a per collection basis.
- It's consistent with how Folders work in Email clients
- I think you are more likely to be switching modes when you switch  
collections, because you are completely changing the data set that  
you are looking at. Whereas when you switch App areas, you are  
working within the same pool of data, but just expanding and  
narrowing what you see.
- Of course, this changes if we have Overlays in the Summary Table  
View. I think if you have overlays, you don't want Sort Order to  
change as you switch collections, because the 'data that you see'  
doesn't change.
- However when you switch between the user-defined area and the Out  
of the Box area, you are essentially swapping data sets (since  
overlays get temporarily de-activated), so sort order should probably  
change to be whatever it was the last time your were in the IN  
collection or the DASHBOARD collection or the TRASH collection.

So the general rule is: If you're working within the same set of  
data, then sort order should stay the same. However, if 1 data set is  
essentially being swapped out for another, then sort order can change.

This is something we should probably just implement 1 way and see how  
it feels.

I will log these as bugs.

>       + Clicking on arrow on the triage headers 'Now', 'Later',  
> 'Done', does not close the items. Only double click on the bar.
>       + There are random icons hidden in the table until I mouse  
> over them. Very weird behavior.

Yeah, I've played around with the idea that when you select an item,  
something appears to show you that there's a widget in that column.  
Or having a widget appear when you mouseover the row, rather than  
just the cell, the way we do it in the sidebar with the collection  
overlay icon.

It's a hard balancing act between making the widget discoverable and  
creating a lot of repetitive visual noise in the table.

I will log a bug with a couple of these suggestions.

>       + Can't click on the arrow of the dashboard, and that in  
> addition to the header bar should be where someone would click to  
> open up the collapsible bar.
>
> + Having to get the hand of finding the 'path' again in setting up  
> my Cosmo sharing service account. I had a problem of understanding  
> the '<' and '>' between the username. I understand that is supposed  
> to help you put the name in there, but I didn't realize you're  
> supposed to delete the '<' and '>' signs. Very small issue, but can  
> lead to frustration.

Yeah I think that's not a convention non-technical people will  
understand. What if we had: osaf.us/your_username instead? It's hard  
for us to grey out the text. So we need to make it clear that the  
field hasn't been filled out for you already.

> + Entering the title in the lozenge, it would be a 'nice to have'  
> if tabbing would take you to the event details area to complete the  
> rest of the form.

I believe that is part of the Keyboard support wiki write-up: http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AEBehavior3320

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> Starting September I'm going to try and start sharing my triage  
> status on my home calendar.
> -Priscilla
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