[Design] Search

[Mimi Yin]

Yes, there is certainly more to the Dashboard than sections. Perhaps  
we can call it Triage Table or something.

Either way, I'm concerned that the Search results view is not listed  
in the View menu. I ran into trouble when I switched the search  
results to a Calendar and then wanted to switch back to a list and  
did so by selecting View>>Table...which didn't actually give me the  
Search results table, because I guess that's different from just a  
normal Table. As a result, the relevance column went away as did the  
(#) next to each collection in the sidebar.

http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7978

I guess what I'm really getting at is that I don't think it will be  
intuitive for users to de-select *Calendar view* or *Triage Table  
view* as the way to get back to the Search Results View. We could add  
a Search Results View option in the menu and replace the Table with  
it. I'm not sure what value a plain Table provides the users right  
now. Can anyone think of some concrete use cases for that view?

Also, how does this interact with Week view and Day view?

Perhaps we should have:

View>>
+ Week
+ Day
+ Triage
+ Search results

Search results would grey out if the user hadn't searched for anything.

Mimi

On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Bryan Stearns wrote:

> 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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