I agree on the clutter. I was working on this. I'm exploring two options: 1. Removing less used buttons and use a mouseover to show more buttons on an action 2. get a context menu per action for quick access
I've attached a patch you can try on current git repo for option 1. It is still work in progress, but it shows the idea For the second option I was thinking of adding a css menu which drops down when you press a button on an action, like in gmail What do you think? Any other ideas? Reinier > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tracks- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Luis Villa > Verzonden: zaterdag 4 oktober 2008 19:53 > Aan: Eric Allen > CC: tracks-discuss > Onderwerp: Re: [Tracks-discuss] UI question about new buttons in master > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Eric Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Yeah, I pushed that to trunk before I came up with good > documentation. Those > > are defer buttons that will push the show_from date out by 1 and 7 > days > > respectively. Would "Defer x days" be a descriptive enough alt text? > > Yup, that would definitely be an improvement. Ideally if the UI has > that information it shouldn't need to be documented at all (no one > reads the docs anyway ;) > > Note that generally I think each task line is really cluttered right > now- at this point every line in the table now has *9* pieces of > information associated with it: > > [delete] > [edit] > [star] > [complete] > [overdue?] > [title] > [project] > [defer 1 day] > [defer 7 days] > > Multiply that by a lot of tasks and that's a whole lot of information > in every screen. Having your eyes scan that much information every > time makes it harder to find the really important information- 'what > do I need to do next.' > > I'm afraid I don't have any great suggestions on how to simplify right > now- maybe put the less frequently used star/delete/defer buttons into > the edit box? But I'd definitely strongly recommend considering the > cognitive cost of all this clutter before adding anything more. > > Thanks again to everyone- trunk looks great, and I'm looking forward > to playing with calendar and the email code- > Luis > > > On Oct 4, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > > > >> Like I said in the other question, I just upgraded to latest master. > >> There are now [+1][+7] buttons next to every action, but they've got > >> no alt text so I have no idea what they do :) They also don't seem > to > >> work consistently- I clicked it on one overdue action and it sent it > >> to the tickler, and clicked on another and (AFAICT) it changed the > due > >> date instead. > >> > >> Can someone explain? :) > >> > >> Luis > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Tracks-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tracks-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
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