Yes, there is certainly more to the Dashboard than sections. Perhaps
we can call it Triage Table or something.
Either way, I'm concerned that the Search results view is not listed
in the View menu. I ran into trouble when I switched the search
results to a Calendar and then wanted to switch back to a list and
did so by selecting View>>Table...which didn't actually give me the
Search results table, because I guess that's different from just a
normal Table. As a result, the relevance column went away as did the
(#) next to each collection in the sidebar.
http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7978
I guess what I'm really getting at is that I don't think it will be
intuitive for users to de-select *Calendar view* or *Triage Table
view* as the way to get back to the Search Results View. We could add
a Search Results View option in the menu and replace the Table with
it. I'm not sure what value a plain Table provides the users right
now. Can anyone think of some concrete use cases for that view?
Also, how does this interact with Week view and Day view?
Perhaps we should have:
View>>
+ Week
+ Day
+ Triage
+ Search results
Search results would grey out if the user hadn't searched for anything.
Mimi
On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Bryan Stearns wrote:
One tidbit, below...
D John Anderson wrote:
On Feb 1, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
5) View selector in the menu. This is certainly a cheap way to
add this feature into the UI! I'm wondering if the user is going
to understand the fine distinctions between a Dashboard and a
Table, especially because there is a collection called
Dashboard. Table and Sectioned Table or Triage Table? might make
more sense? However, there's a 'Use sections' menu item in the
View menu which confuses things. Perhaps we should get rid of
that if we have these View menu options at the top.
I'm happy with calling it a "Sectioned Table" or "Triage Table"
and getting rid of the Use sections menu Item. I need to double
check with Bryan Stearns to make sure that turning off sections is
the same as Table view.
Turning off sections is not the same as Table view - it's just
Dashboard with the sections turned off. (There's more to Dashboard
than just sections.)
(I think the Use Sections menu item can go away: it was a temporary
hack when sectioning wasn't usable.)
...Bryan
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