Dennis,
My apologies that we haven't been able to engage in a more detailed
discussion about this. Our 0.7 release is a really important
milestone for us and we have been fairly heads down trying to execute
on that plan. For this reason, the design list conversations are very
focused around those short-term goals. Basically, we just haven't had
a lot of bandwidth for discussions and explorations that concern
future features.
Cheers,
Sheila
On Jun 14, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Dennis Lynch wrote:
I never got any feedback about this comment and wondered why.
I think it creates a UI that has "the best of both worlds"- one screen
layout that the user can load (as default if he wishes) is exactly the
same as the current design in Chandler, BUT ALSO, the user has the
chance to rearrange the screen to suit his/her working style, and to
see more or less mini-windows based on what works best for him/her.
I don't doubt that this is too late for 0.7, but isn't it worthy of
some discussion
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From: Dennis Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Apr 19, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: [Design] [Sum] Preview area
To: Chandler Design list <[email protected]>
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
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