On Dec 8, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
hank williams wrote:
I just realized that mimi is saying there is some code difficulty in
doing what I am describing. Overlays are hard to do in the table
view.
This *really* should be addressed because it is a core metaphor
issue.
I could not find a bug for this, so I filed
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11618
By the way, overlay is another one of those words that is not
necessary. All you are doing is selecting calendars. google calendars
doesnt need fancy jargon to describe this feature.
This is the simplest and most obvious way to implement "overlays" and
was proposed in the past. There are some problems with it, e.g.
selecting normally deselects everything else, which might not be what
you want, and shift-click is used to add to the selection. Shift-click
is a hidden feature that most users don't know about. However, our
current check mark in the sidebar is probably not anymore obvious to
most users than shift-click.
Hmm, this might work. Selection and overlay are different things as
currently implemented, but it seems to me like we could get rid of the
whole overlay terminology and icons: collections are either selected
or
not (and multi-select would effectively mean overlay).
Overlay was also one of the terms I had trouble with when translating
Chandler to Finnish; selection would be easy.
--
Heikki Toivonen
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