Hi, Mimi
More inline ...
On 8 Mar, 2008, at 06:22, Mimi Yin wrote:
Grant has started looking into making it possible to pop-up a
separate detail view window so that users can view and edit multiple
items at once as well as choose to really focus on a single item
(e.g. when taking notes, reading a long write-up, etc).
There is still a significant amount of work to do to get this
working properly. I had some design requirements to add as well ;)
and thought I'd send it to the list for review.
I don't think any of these things should *block* a 1.0 release.
They're nice to haves we should keep in mind if they're trivial to
implement.
Mock-up: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=5028&action=edit
1. Include a toolbar with the Send/Update button. It'd be nice if
once you're finished writing something up, you didn't have to go
back to the main window and hunt for the item in order to Send it out.
Probably not difficult ... that functionality should be available
through menus, too.
2. Display the item-Title in the window's title bar.
Done :).
3. Add a 'SHOW/HIDE DETAILS' feature. I think oftentimes, the desire
for a separate detail view is motivated by really wanting to zero in
on the Note field in particular. I've heard users talk about it as:
I find myself wanting to open up a plain text file and start typing
there first before entering it into Chandler.
Hidden State (The default state when popping up a separate DV)
- Markup Bar
- TItle
- SHOW DETAILS link above the Notes field
Shown State
- All Detail View fields
Note: Clicking on the Addressing/Calendar stamps should = clicking
on SHOW DETAILS
My guess is that this isn't too much work, as there's already
infrastructure for showing/hiding parts of the detail view.
One issue we *do* need to resolve no matter what is how does the
user pop up the separate DV. We're a bit in a quandary because the
convention for popping up a separate detail view (d-click on the
item row) doesn't work for us because our items (at least in the
table) are editable. So we could...
- Add 'expand' icon in the mark-up bar
- Add 'EXPAND' link above the Notes field - right aligned. (This
only makes sense if we implement SHOW/HIDE functionality)
Is "expand" really the correct word here? Regardless, these should be
straightforward to implement.
- Disable d-click for editing items in-place and re-purpose it for
popping up a separate DV
Personally, I never double-click to edit in the summary table, and
rarely do so in the calendar, so this would work for me. But maybe
other people have different opinions?
- Make a slow 2-click work for editing items in-place (Mac convention)
- Tab should still work for editing items in-place
Grant, what's the easiest thing to do?
For testing, I just added a menu item. I had originally been thinking
menu + context menu, as well as some variation on double-click, e.g.
double-click with modifier key, or double-click on non-editable column
of summary view. I think those wouldn't be hard to do. The "slow
double-click" route is a little trickier code-wise, and might be a
little too Mac-ish?
Anyway, I noticed I didn't really answer the question ;). The bottom
line is that none of the above is especially hard to implement.
--Grant
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