New Design Discussions: John had sent Mimi and I an email indicating that he checked in a change that would enable us to multiple windows and we should take this into consideration in the design. Discussion continued around what behavior would be easy for us to try out. Mimi forwarded this thread to the list. Mimi forwarded the notes from her interview with Mini Kahlon of LPFI. Mini fits into our "Hub" target user category. Jeffrey sent a post asking for clarification around how overlays work with the dashboard collections. Mimi clarified the behavior. + If a user has a dashboard collection selected then overlays a user-defined collection, this is interpreted as a context switch. The selection switches from the dashboard to the user-defined area. Continued Threads: Bryan S responded to the dashboard spec with some specific questions. In summary, based on Mimi's response. The dashboard views for a specific app area should look the same as the "D" dashboard (All app area). Ticklers co-exist with reminders and popup reminder dialogs. Detail view mockups are forthcoming. Mimi responded to Edward Porter's post on the task list feature pointing him to the dashboard specs and various wiki pages that are relevant. Sheila sent out the notes for a meeting we had on clarifying the meaning of In/Out when you have a shared events stamped as mails. We converged on a proposal for how we will handle this in 1.0. Jeffrey responded to an old thread about having events with no specified start and end time. He was wondering if this was still in our plans since there are a number of places in the code where we assume these events have times. He suggested that we don't try and translate these to iCalendar. He also wondered about whether or not we add the start date when we stamp the item as an event. Mimi replied that we should probably leave out the time since we can't assume people want to schedule an event for now. Dennis Lynch pinged us regarding his idea for the preview pane. He had never heard any feedback. Sheila responded that we were focussing the design discussions on short-term goals. Other discussions: Hank Williams sent us a post stating his concerns about the performance of the application. He received various responses suggesting he wait for the intel mac version released with Alpha3. There was some subsequent discussion about specific performance problems and how we will be addressing them.. Sheila sent out an announcement that we had released a patched version of Alpha2 to increase the sharing timeout. |
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