On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 18:23 +0000, bsag wrote: > On Thu Feb 15 09:40:44 UTC 2007, Reinier Balt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 19:15 +0000, bsag wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Like Reinier, I think the icons for contexts are quite nice, but it > > > implies > > > that there are hard-coded contexts, which I also don't like much. I think > > > that > > > most people probably have a different set of contexts that work for them, > > > so I'd rather let people name their own. > > > > You could solve this by making the user choose an icon when creating a > > context. You could let the user pick out an icon from a list of standard > > icons. I don't think it should be a replacement for the textual name of > > a context, rather an addition to the name... > > I think that might make for clutter, personally (plus slower page loading). >
true, but the user chooses this clutter, it is not imposed > > > I also sympathise with John's view of hosted web applications - I think > > > it's > > > nice to have a choice. > > > > > > The starring looks pretty cool, but again, it depends how it's > > > implemented, > > > and it would be nice to have a choice about whether to use that or not. > > > I'm > > > hoping that tags might fulfil this role in Tracks in a very freeform way: > > > you can tag an action as 'nextaction' (or whatever), then view a page > > > just > > > showing things you've tagged nextaction. > > > > > I always thought of a star as a sort of tag. You can attach it to any > > action and the meaning of it is not imposed by the system. You can use > > it for nextactions that have higher priority or just to distinguish the > > hard nextactions from the easy nextactions (low hanging fruit in > > consultant terms :-) ) > > > > (Which also makes me think that perhaps the ability to use an icon as a > > tag could be handy e.g. icon for nextaction or icon for private / > > work-related actions. This could prevent cluttering the screen with > > tags) > > Though tags are useful for many more things than marking next actions, so it > wouldn't replace it, in my view. > also true. But if you add three or more tags to an action, it is a lot of text on the screen. Replacing some of the tags with icons makes this a little bit better... but it remains subjective if one sees it as better (it also looks inconsistent, mixing icons and text). Perhaps a mockup could help. Reinier _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
