[Design] Search

Bryan Stearns stearns at osafoundation.org
Thu Feb 1 11:02:05 PST 2007


One tidbit, below...

D John Anderson wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>> *5) View selector in the menu. This is certainly a cheap way to add 
>> this feature into the UI!* I'm wondering if the user is going to 
>> understand the fine distinctions between a Dashboard and a Table, 
>> especially because there is a collection called Dashboard.  Table and 
>> Sectioned Table or Triage Table? might make more sense? However, 
>> there's a 'Use sections' menu item in the View menu which confuses 
>> things. Perhaps we should get rid of that if we have these View menu 
>> options at the top.
>
> I'm happy with calling it a "Sectioned Table" or "Triage Table" and 
> getting rid of the Use sections menu Item. I need to double check with 
> Bryan Stearns to make sure that turning off sections is the same as 
> Table view.
Turning off sections is not the same as Table view - it's just Dashboard 
with the sections turned off. (There's more to Dashboard than just 
sections.)

(I think the Use Sections menu item can go away: it was a temporary hack 
when sectioning wasn't usable.)

...Bryan

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