Thanks for the feedback! I've taken your suggestions and created a ticket with my summary understanding of them. I think the big thing is figuring out the drop target. I'll play around with it and see if I can come up with something better.
http://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/1033-improve-context-change-drag-drop On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Eric Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > I find it pretty irritating to hit the smaller target; hard to quantify >> how much worse it is, really. > > Okay, I'll back it out. At this point there's no real reason to have the > small target. > > More generally, I guess I'm not a fan of various mechanisms for > > prioritization- I keep coming back to the GTD book, which I think > > tends to focus on keeping lists trimmed/clean rather than letting them > > blow out of proportion and then using stars, re-ordering, etc. But > > then again it has been a while since I read the book, and I know we're > > not trying to be doctrinaire here :) > > I totally agree with you about prioritization. As far as I'm concerned, > tickets that try to get us to add some kind of ordering or prioritization > are inherently invalid, but I do my best to be open-minded. We don't seem to > have particularly strong sentiment in this direction, though, so I feel > comfortable ignoring the suggestion (to add prioritization) for now :) > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Eric Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It would be nice if it were slightly more obvious what is going >> >> on--perhaps subtly flash or highlight the title of the context? Also, >> >> my first instinct was to drop on the title of the context itself, >> so maybe >> >> making that a drop target as well? >> > >> > Yeah, I like both of those suggestions. I think keeping the dashed drop >> > target is good, but having both can't hurt, right? >> >> Yeah, I think that is right. >> >> >> Also, playing with it a bit more, I realized that (I think) at >> some point >> >> the drop target for drag/drop dependencies got small- it went from >> being the >> >> whole task (I think?) to just the small icon. That, again, makes it a >> little >> >> harder to do. >> > >> > Hmm. I deliberately shrunk it so that we could eventually add drag & >> drop >> > re-ordering of tasks, although I'm somewhat opposed to that idea in the >> > first place. How much worse is the smaller target for you? >> >> I find it pretty irritating to hit the smaller target; hard to >> quantify how much worse it is, really. >> >> More generally, I guess I'm not a fan of various mechanisms for >> prioritization- I keep coming back to the GTD book, which I think >> tends to focus on keeping lists trimmed/clean rather than letting them >> blow out of proportion and then using stars, re-ordering, etc. But >> then again it has been a while since I read the book, and I know we're >> not trying to be doctrinaire here :) >> >> Luis >> > >
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