[Design] Please review: Dashboard Spec Updated!

[Davor Cubranic]

How about just leaving those unread items in the Now section after a 
purge? (It might help to show them in bold, too.)

Davor

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> 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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