I am behind a week on the summaries.... Priscilla forwarded her Chandler dogfooding notes from July-Sept. + Priscilla had a few struggles with the dashboard - not surprising since it's not quite finished yet. A couple of these bugs we already know about and she brought up some good issues about sort in the dashboard. Both Mimi and Bryan responded to the comments about sort and opening and closing the sections. + More feedback on the account dialogs + A suggestion that tabbing from the title in the event lozenge moves you to the detail view. Priscilla sent out a proposal that we remove the "Sharing Server" tag line under the Cosmo logo since due to the merge, it's more than just a sharing server now. Sheila and Ted seemed to think this was a good idea. Priscilla sent out a last call and is going to move forward with the change. Priscilla also posted an email about the cost of having visual cues in the detail view when users have made edits to items. For example, as a user made changes if we could tag those in the detail view notes fields showing who had made the changes in a similar style to when you reply to emails. There are a couple of issues here. We aren't planning on handling versions until post Preview and this is not trivial work. Also, there are a couple of other affordances we will be using for this and we want to find out if this is enough. There is still an open question if we can do something simple in the notes field for Preview but it's not high priority on the list and will likely be deferred for other more critical items. Mimi and John have been iterating on the design for the sidebar icons, mouse-over, mouse-down and overlay states. He mocked up some alternatives you can access from the Test->Skins menu. Several people replied with feedback. It seems like most people prefer the current design to the extra column in the sidebar but they find the "eye" icon that appears on mouse-over a bit jarring. Continued discussions: The conversation continued around Default TZ and interop. This has been summarized in the following thread. The thread continued on Setting up special stamping IMAP Folders. + Oren responded asking if we would be able to map existing tasks folders to Chandler. He could imagine putting all these tasks into Chandler. He also asked about what would happen if the user deleted items on the IMAP server. + Mimi responded that deleted items would remain in Chandler and we wouldn't be trying to keep this in sync. + Brian K responded that creating custom folders is a good suggestion but will probably be deferred to post 1.0. We are also planning on trying to stamp items automatically if there is date information in the email. Brian brought up some good questions about how we determine whether or not it's a task with a reminder or an event. + Darshana is also working through some of these issues for the command line stuff. If the user enters text with a start date/time and end date/time, we automatically stamp it an an event. If it only has a single date/time, we simply set a reminder for that item. + It's unclear whether or not Brian can reuse any of Darshana's code but the behavior for parsing the emails will be consistent. We continued the discussion on recurrence, table view and triage status. This is being summarized in a separate thread (coming soon). |
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