New Threads: Mimi started a thread on visual treatments of empty collections. Mimi has been thinking about enhancements for the readability of collections when there are no items and when the collection is selected and has focus. Empty collections are currently grey which can make users think they are disabled. + Mimi is proposing that we get rid of special visual treatment for empty collections. + +1 from Jeffrey Mimi summarized an off-list discussion relating to forward/reply/reply all for stamped items. + Reply and reply all are simply a message. If the item is stamped as an event, we copy the details into the note and it's sent as a simple message. + If we forward an item stamped as an event, we create an ics attachment. Chandler users receive this as a mail time stamped as an event. Non-Chandler users receive a message with an ics attachment. Sheila posted that we have iterated quite a bit on the sidebar icons and have reached a design we are happy with for Preview. We will focus our attention on completing other features and addressing performance and stability. BCM replied to Mimi's post about the Usage Scenarios for GData/Atom. He was quite pleased with the extensive list of use cases that Mimi came up with. Mimi posted about Stamping and Date/Time Parsing. When users add emails to the special Chandler Events IMAP folder, we will attempt to parse any date time information in the email and automatically create an event in Chandler. If user receives an email in Chandler via special Chandler headers or POP mail and decides to Stamp that message to add it to their calendar, Chandler should also automatically parse any date/time information in the message. + Mimi is wondering if this is alot of extra work to implement. + Darshana replied that she had already implemented this. She is running into one problem where all date/time info is getting parsed even if it's not event information. + Mimi updated the spec with details that we will attempt to parse date/time information in the title and notes field. If we can't find any date/time information we simply don't stamp it as an event. Philippe responded to Mimi's proposal that In and Out Collections should appear out of the box. He thought this was a good idea. Mimi sent out a Item Sharing Proposal for Preview. Per Morgen's request, she followed up with a detailed workflow we want to support. Basically item sharing allows people who are not using Chandler to participate in the collaboration scenarios. We haven't yet decided if this will be in Preview or not. We are still exploring options via discussions on the list. John posted to the list about Selections without focus in Chandler. John is suggesting that people are confused when a command doesn't work on a selection that doesn't have focus. He suggests that the difference between focused selections and non-focused selections be more distinct. Proposal: drawing the non-focused selection in gray rather than a lighter shade of the selection color. + Bear asked if the keyboard focus should be where the attention of the user is - if we support use without a mouse. + Mimi sent out some background on why the focus doesn't shift to the sidebar when you single click on a collection. + Davor commented that he doesn't like the way the keyboard focus sometimes gets stuck in the folder view when using Thunderbird (doesn't want to delete a collection). He suggests that if the sidebar has to get focus, we could have a keyboard shortcut that rotates the focus to different places. + Mimi replied that we plan to support navigation between panes with the tab key. Sheila sent out a first draft of the Preview email spec. Mimi forwarded a bug and discussion to the list - All recurring mail occurrences appear in the In collection. It relates to what happens when we email recurring events. Since this post, we have closed a proposal for handling recurring events, stamping, email. A summary for the list is pending. Continued Discussions: Discussions continued around Sharing the BCC field. + Brian K expressed concern about the perf implications for sharing items and what happens if there is an error of the server is down. He was also worried about the custom work required to handle BCC differently for item sharing. + Sheila replied that we were simply brainstorming options to tease out all the issues. Item sharing is a "maybe" for Preview. We have also proposed not to share the BCC field for Preview either but Mimi simply wanted to explore the issues on the list. |
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