On Fri Feb 23 09:12:19 UTC 2007, Reinier Balt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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:

> > > 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

True, I'll think about it.

> > > (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.

Luke and I did discuss hiding tags in a div (like item notes), so that you'd 
get an icon of a note to click to disclose all your tags. I'm going to leave it 
as is for the next release and just see how people get on with it. I think it 
needs to be lived with for a while.

cheers,

bsag

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