[Design] Editing Read-only items

[Philippe Bossut]

Morgen Sagen wrote:
>
> On Apr 30, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
>
>> Philippe Bossut wrote:
>>
>> One proposal:
>> - if the item is "read-only", the markup bar shows a "striked crayon" 
>> icon
>> - nothing is editable when this icon is displayed but...
>> - ...the user can click the "striked crayon" to make the item 
>> editable, a dialog pops-up warning the user (edits will be local and 
>> conflict with edits coming from the server on sync) and the icon 
>> turns into a "non-striked crayon" (note that read-write item do not 
>> display any crayon of any kind so you can make the difference between 
>> a read-write item, a read-only item and a read-only but edited item...)
>
> I like this proposal, and I think we could take it one step further:  
> if the user has clicked the icon to make the item editable and has 
> made some overriding changes, we could allow them to click the icon 
> again and set the item's values back to the way they are on the server 
> -- in other words "stop overriding".  The sharing layer wouldn't even 
> need to communicate with the server to do this, as the server values 
> are cached locally. 

+1 to Morgen's addition. Really nice touch.

Looks like we have to wait for PPD to weigh in now... :)

Cheers,
- Philippe