Sounds good: this would provide the most likely choices at the very top
of the pull down.
Also, having the last choice persisted (as suggested by Graham) will
help too: most users will end up just letting the pull down unchanged
after their first use of it.
Cheers,
- Philippe
Mimi Yin wrote:
What if New collection were the default in the pulldown? and the
existing collection were right under it? and then a divider before a
list of all existing collections?
New collection (default selection in pulldown)
"Home" (currently selected collection)
==============
My calendar
etc.
etc.
The likelihood that people will know they need to have the right
collection selected BEFORE they go File>>Import is pretty low. It's
why we wanted the pulldown in the first place, so that users wouldn't
need to abort the Import dialog, go back and select the right
collection and then start again. (Which is what you have to do in iCal)
As a rule, import should be pretty rare, ideally a one-time affair,
but will be common for osaf dogfooders in 0.6.
Mimi
On Oct 29, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Graham Bird wrote:
At 06:56 PM 10/28/2005, Sheila Mooney wrote:
I think we should go to the design list on this one...
We are going to add an enhancement for 0.6 that allows the user to
import events in an ics file into either an existing calendar or a
new one. Currently, on import, the events go into a new collection
that is generated automatically.
There seem to be a couple of alternatives...
(1) A simple drop-down listing the names of the existing calendars
and "new calendar". The drop-down would be default to "new calendar"
automatically. If you wanted to specify an existing calendar you
would select from the list and those events will be added to this
collection. I suppose we could default the selection to the
collection in the sidebar but this probably depends on the frequency
you would create a new one vs import into an existing one.
Best of all maybe to let the user decide (and set) the default as
part of the option set.
(2) The second option seems to be 2 radio buttons. One radio button
would be for creating a new collection. The second radio button
could either automatically import the events into the selected
collection in the sidebar OR popup a drop-down with the list of
existing collections and have the selection default to the calendar
selected in the sidebar.
My personal vote is for the drop-down only because it's one field,
the user wouldn't have to do anything if they wanted to create a new
collection and the user doesn't have to make sure they have the
right collection selected in the sidebar first. If we had it default
to the selected collection you would have to navigate to choose
"new" but is that anymore work than selecting a radio button?
In any case, all comments, ideas, suggestions welcome.
Sheila
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+1 on that: I don't want to have to navigate the drop down to
select "new" either... Seems too much to me.
- Philippe
Jeffrey Harris wrote:
Hi Folks,
So, is everyone set on having just a drop down menu? Because
personally
I think my first choice would be to have two radio buttons, one for
create a new collection (default), the other called existing
collection,
selecting this radio button would activate a drop down menu of
existing
collections, with the currently selected collection the default
selection for the drop down. I don't want to have to go select
the same
collection over and over...
Alternately, we could put the current selection at the top of the drop
down, but that seems a little wacky...
Sincerely,
Jeffrey
I prefer the drop-down so
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