[Design] Questions about name that appears in detail view bi-line

[Grant Baillie]

On 8 Mar, 2007, at 14:48, Mimi Yin wrote:

>> ...
>>> - For an item which is both shared and emailed, I suppose the  
>>> emailness overwrite the shareness and then the byline should say  
>>> "Send as <lastModifiedby>" rather than "Edited by  
>>> <lastModifiedby>" when editing. What if the item is synced but  
>>> not sent? I still think it should say "Send as" and not switch to  
>>> "Updated by" (i.e. emailness always win). Is that ok?
>>
>> Actually, the stamping spec currently has this the other way around.
>
> Oh is that true? Where do you see that Grant? So long as the item  
> has not been Sent, the Send as: field prevails. 'Updated by' only  
> appears if the item has been 'Updated' by clicking on the 'Update'  
> button in the toolbar. Hopefully, I'm not misunderstanding everybody.

I had thought the Send as: field prevailed, too. But then I went and  
looked at the spec, and doubt entered my mind:

> Edited by appears if:
>
>     * Item has been edited, while the user is editing, regardless  
> of whether it has been Sent/Updated or not
>     * At this point, if the item has been stamped and addressed,  
> the value for the Edited by field is a pulldown where the user can  
> select an email account to Send the item from; OR contains a prompt  
> to set up their email account info.

To me, that sounded as if Edited by was going to win.

--Grant