[Design] [Sum] Sep 11-17

[Sheila Mooney]

I am behind a week on the summaries....

New threads:

Priscilla forwarded her Chandler dogfooding notes from July-Sept.
+ Priscilla had a few struggles with the dashboard - not surprising  
since it's not quite finished yet. A couple of these bugs we already  
know about and she brought up some good issues about sort in the  
dashboard. Both Mimi and Bryan responded to the comments about sort  
and opening and closing the sections.
+ More feedback on the account dialogs
+ A suggestion that tabbing from the title in the event lozenge moves  
you to the detail view.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-September/ 
005389.html

Priscilla sent out a proposal that we remove the "Sharing Server" tag  
line under the Cosmo logo since due to the merge, it's more than just  
a sharing server now. Sheila and Ted seemed to think this was a good  
idea. Priscilla sent out a last call and is going to move forward  
with the change.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-September/ 
005409.html

Priscilla also posted an email about the cost of having visual cues  
in the detail view when users have made edits to items. For example,  
as a user made changes if we could tag those in the detail view notes  
fields showing who had made the changes in a similar style to when  
you reply to emails. There are a couple of issues here. We aren't  
planning on handling versions until post Preview and this is not  
trivial work. Also, there are a couple of other affordances we will  
be using for this and we want to find out if this is enough. There is  
still an open question if we can do something simple in the notes  
field for Preview but it's not high priority on the list and will  
likely be deferred for other more critical items.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-September/ 
005367.html

Mimi and John have been iterating on the design for the sidebar  
icons, mouse-over, mouse-down and overlay states. He mocked up some  
alternatives you can access from the Test->Skins menu. Several people  
replied with feedback. It seems like most people prefer the current  
design to the extra column in the sidebar but they find the "eye"  
icon that appears on mouse-over a bit jarring.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-September/ 
005430.html

Continued discussions:

The conversation continued around Default TZ and interop. This has  
been summarized in the following thread.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-September/ 
005463.html

The thread continued on Setting up special stamping IMAP Folders.
+ Oren responded asking if we would be able to map existing tasks  
folders to Chandler. He could imagine putting all these tasks into  
Chandler. He also asked about what would happen if the user deleted  
items on the IMAP server.
+ Mimi responded that deleted items would remain in Chandler and we  
wouldn't be trying to keep this in sync.
+ Brian K responded that creating custom folders is a good suggestion  
but will probably be deferred to post 1.0. We are also planning on  
trying to stamp items automatically if there is date information in  
the email. Brian brought up some good questions about how we  
determine whether or not it's a task with a reminder or an event.
+ Darshana is also working through some of these issues for the  
command line stuff. If the user enters text with a start date/time  
and end date/time, we automatically stamp it an an event. If it only  
has a single date/time, we simply set a reminder for that item.
+ It's unclear whether or not Brian can reuse any of Darshana's code  
but the behavior for parsing the emails will be consistent.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-September/ 
005392.html

We continued the discussion on recurrence, table view and triage  
status. This is being summarized in a separate thread (coming soon).


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