[Design] Please review: Dashboard Spec Updated!

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi Jeffrey,

Interesting scenario. Indeed, I understand the need though, to be 
perfectly honest, I still dislike the pop-up as I think it'll end up 
annoying users and they (I for sure...) will end up not paying attention 
to it.

So what about this: display in the section header (the gray row holding 
the open triangle and "Done" text) an icon that says that they are 
unread items in this section. Or, may be better, the number of unread 
items (we currently display the total number of items).

Thoughts?

Cheers,
- Philippe


Jeffrey Harris wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
>   
>> - "Note: If there are Unread items that are about to be purged, we
>> should throw up a dialog: Are you sure you want to purge? There are
>> newunread items that will be purged."
>> I don't see a strong rationale for such a pop up dialog. What's wrong
>> with triaging unread items? Besides, the verb "purge" seems to indicate
>> that something will be "removed" or "got rid of" which is not the case
>> (items will simply be resorted). I suggest not to provide this dialog.
>>     
>
> I think I originally proposed this, here's the scenario I'm worried about:
>
> - I have a task in a shared collection which isn't sharing triage
> status.  I mark the task as DONE, because I think I'm done with it.
>
> - Someone comes along and adds comments in the task that change its
> meaning, so it's no longer DONE
>
> - I'm looking at and changing triage status for items in the LATER
> section, and the NOW section is scrolled off the screen, when auto-sync
> happens.  Because the task is updated by sharing, it moves to my NOW
> section and becomes unread.  As soon as I hit triage, it'll go back to DONE.
>
> - When I hit triage, I don't want to lose the fact that the task has
> been updated by sending it back to the DONE section, because I haven't
> looked at it yet.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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