Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
- initial experience on the desktop (improved with bigger data set?)
Personal anecdotal experience (install and demo Wednesday morning) shown me that this is an issue: there's a lack of initial starting points and this new user looked at the almost blank slate with a petrified look. First thing he did: check the Help menu for a documentation but we have only "About", "Faq" and "Report a bug". I shown him that there's a clickable link to the ChandlerProject website in the About box but that's somewhat buried. He liked the Getting Started Guide and suggested we add that in the Help menu (as we do for Faq). Other suggestion: bundle a pdf version of the Getting Started Guide so that he can print and doesn't need to be online to consult it. It didn't feel like having more OOTB items would help that much.
Would be nice to get more than this single observation. Adding a menu item in Help to browse to the Getting Started Guide would be a trivial thing to add for instance.
- parsing in quick entry field (ultimately useful for both desktop and hub)
This feature demos *very* well and wow people. Finding out what people do spontaneously with it and where are the rough points would help make it easier to discover and use. Fixing bugs related to this feature (bug 8168) is on our list for the next few 0.7.x (thanks to Andre for arguing his point in Bugzilla on that one :) )
Cheers, - Philippe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
