good point
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: > A while ago David mentioned that he wanted to unify tracks and > actions, because most filter conditions are reused by both. The one > major difference is that tracks work on all messages, while actions > work only on messages in your timeline. Maybe it's worth thinking > about factoring out common things. > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Richard Hirsch <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Well, as Vassil has pointed out, the tracks do a lot more than just tracking >>> tags, so they definitely still offer something. Unfortunately they also are >>> not very accessible to the average user. >>> >>> This type of question is part of the reason that I created ESME-285 ( >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ESME-285) in Release 1.2, so that we >>> can make the decision to turn something like Tracks off by default, but >>> leave it in the code base. I'm not saying that is necessarily the right >>> decision here, but it is an option. >>> >>> Regarding lists of things being tracked, we need to figure out a reasonable >>> item-tracking-management interface so that people can see everything they >>> are following in one place and manage it. Maybe that is what "Tracks" should >>> become eventually? I think that's a little ways off (maybe not Release 1.2 >>> material), but definitely an interesting UI challenge. >> >> I like the idea of having one place to track everything I follow: >> * Tags >> * Conversations >> * People >> ... >> >> It would also be useful to be able to turn the items on and off at one >> location. >> >>> >>> Ethan >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Richard Hirsch >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Now that we can follow conversations and tags, do we still need tracks >>>> as well? Besides the fact that I get a list of things I track, I don't >>>> see any reason to keep them. >>>> >>>> D. >>>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Twitter: http://twitter.com/vdichev > Blog: http://speaking-my-language.blogspot.com >
