Reinier Balt wrote:
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
I recently spent a long time thinking and writing down my thoughts about
this. (my main point was that I think dropdowns are a bad idea, I even
made a 'performance analysis' to explain why)
( See
http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/private/tracks-discuss/2008-August/001427.html
)
Other then bsag's explanation about her view on the tracks development
process and some general remarks, I didn't get a reply on the ideas and
proposals in that mail.
I personally think I made some valid points (and if not, at least stuff
worth discussing), so I'm still very curious to what everyone thinks
about it :-)
But I will definitely pull in the latest changes and play with them.
Dieter
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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
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