Il lun, 2003-08-18 alle 15:12, Ettore Perazzoli ha scritto: > Yes, but that would cause the view to have two search bars (instead of > one), which sounds overkill.
I am advocating a label + option menu for the "filter bar" thingy I described... not a full search bar by any stretch of the imagination. Are two widgets (label + option menu) really overkill? A label + option menu doesn't seem much more complex than a toolbar button at all. > Also, how do you make the user select the > set of task "folders" to display? I am really not sure that I understand your question. Are you asking how, in a filter bar, you'd pick a set of folders? Or are you asking which folders would appear in the filter bar, period? I'll assume the former.. I was imagining that we'd just list each task folder in the option menu, and the user can either select one of those, or select "all", or select "Due Today". I guess if you wanted to get really fancy, you could add an "Other..." choice to the menu which gives you an "advanced search" type dialog from which you pick which tasks folders you want to display. But I bet you that the vast majority of the time, people will only want to see what's due today, or what is in a given task folder (or, all folders). > In the new UI you can see calendar items from multiple sources at the > same time, it makes sense that you can do the same thing with tasks. I > don't see an easy way to do that with a search bar though. Well, if we went this route, then the summary of tasks in the calendar would be just that-- a summary. I don't necessarily think that we'd want or need to cram all of the same information/options into that summary as into the tasks component (or for that matter, into the calendar component). Maybe the problem is that I don't have the same picture of usage cases as you do. The uses I've been thinking of for the tasks summary in the calendar are along the lines of: 1. I know that Tuesday is going to be an overloaded day for me, so I want to check what stuff I'm supposed to do on Tuesday, including appointments, meetings, and tasks. 2. I am trying to plan my vacation, and I'm looking at my calendar to see how many days I have left to make all my preparations before I have to leave. 3. I want to be prepared for the next Evo team meeting, so I'm trying to figure out what designs I'm supposed to have prepared by that time. ... Are there other use cases that you are thinking of? Can you explain them? That would help a lot. On a different note, if you want to test the "toolbar button which switches views" idea, make me a prototype (or give me a due date), and I'll run it through the usability lab here. (Whatever idea we tentatively decide on, we should try it on users in a controlled environment so we can see how it works for them, no?) Anna -- Anna Marie Dirks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
