Hi Federico, I got some time to think about your narrative, thanks for this great piece. In general the idea feels right to me, but I have the following comments:
1. Your prototype seems to be completely independent from the Clock applet in the shell, where you have the reminders from evolution. Maybe it makes sense to merge these two UIs in someway... After all the only extra thing would be the calendar ( I would say that All type of reminders should go into only one UI) of course, doing it right is not easy because the UI can become quickly cluttered. 2. I understand why you put the filters in the middle and it's nice for me, but maybe for RTL users you would want to put the Journal on the right and the reminders on the left? 3. I don't understand why saving the files from the mail program should give you a notification of the journal. (I know this is probably some design decision I missed) In my opinion, you just saved the files, you already know that the files are being added to the journal, so I see no reason why you should be notified about it. 4. How is the interaction going to work if you don't want to drag the files from the Journal? Let's say you use nautilus, or the "finding" part of the interaction (which I guess would be tracker based), is it possible to make the drag between gtk+ and shell parts to work well? In my workflow, I download everything to some big "Downloads" folder, and then from time to time, I try to empty this folder. So this is like the "all pending" folders without the timing thingie. Probably having some way of annotation(tags) in nautilus that permit to control the reminders by the tags would be nice. (like, I might annotate a pdf file, (Read next week) 5. Finally, what are your plans for people that are more TODO based than calendar based? My idea would be to have a uncategorized "pending do not when" which can be prioritized instead of time-based. Of course this might be outside of the scope of Finding and Reminding. Greetings José On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Federico Mena Quintero <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I finally got off my ass and finished the paper prototypes for Finding > and Reminder. This is the journal and reminders that I posted about the > other day in the "Narrative for Finding and Reminding" thread. > > Since posting pictures to this list is awkward, I've put the narrative > and prototypes here: > > http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2011-05.html#narrative > > The post also links to an XCF with the various pieces of the paper > prototype, for if you want to play with them, print them, etc. > > I hope to be able to test the prototype on my wife; I'm sure a second > pair of eyes will bring up basic problems in the design. > > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
