I am wondering whether the current design paradigm is perhaps too limiting??!!??!! And that it actually causes some of the confusion which Mimi and other's suggestions are trying to9 fix.
Mimi Yin wrote: >Proposals > > * Current design: In the Calendar app, the preview pane is stuck showing > Today's > events. In the other App areas, it shows events for whatever day is selected > in the > mini-cal. > > * Alternate design 1: Make the Calendar app consistent with the other App > areas. >Add extra visual feedback in the mini-cal so the user can select a day within a >week...when they're in the week view, so the user can control which day of the week >they want to see in the Preview pane. > > * Alternate design 2: In the Calendar app, we add a label: Today's events > at the top >of the Preview pane. > > * Alternate design 3: In all Apps areas, the Preview pane is stuck on > Today's events. >However, the user can mouseover different days to preview events for those days. >(Might be too much interaction feedback. More disorienting than useful.) > It seems to me that the rigid layout of Chandler causes these confusions. A more flexible handling of these panes could solve the problem. Chandler (just like many other apps) has a main working area, and numerous other working/reference/tool areas- sidebar, mini-cal, preview, "Selected day's Events", and Today's Events, to-dos, etc. Each one of these areas should be a separate "pane", which could either be floating or docked, rolled-up, expanded, resized, or closed. See Corel PaintShopPro 9 as an example (I'm not familiar with the newer version X). Chandler could/should have a few "standard workspace layouts" based on the current function being performed, but should also allow the user to create and save their own workspace layouts. See PSP-9 "File-Workspace-Save". I think this type of application workspace would totally eliminate the confusion/concern about what info the preview window should show. Just my 2 cents. Dennis Lynch _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
