ooh, good point, I should think so.
On Jan 11, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
+1 to this general proposal. One clarifying question: Should double
clicking (which currently edits the collection name) leave the sidebar
with focus?
Mimi Yin wrote:
I'm going to attempt to summarize this briefly and attempt to wrap up
this issue (for 0.7) with a proposal/decision.
Given that we think most of the time users have their focus in the
summary pane and not in the sidebar, BUT
Keeping in mind that there are times when they will want to focus
their
attention and therefore the keyboard in the sidebar AND
Given that computers still can't read minds,
Let's try the following design in 0.7 (and flag this as an issue
we want
to keep on top of when it comes time to collect and process dogfood
feedback).
1. Single click in the sidebar does NOT shift keyboard focus to
the sidebar
2. Click and then click again to shift focus to the sidebar AND/OR
3. Use the Tab key AND/OR
4. Click on sharing or info (if the collection isn't shared) icon
AND/OR
5. Select menu item: Collection>>View details
to shift focus to the sidebar and replace item detail view with
collection detail view.
Mimi
On Jan 9, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
Has anyone used both clients and noticed the difference? If you
have
any personal anecdotes, please share.
I was recently cursing Thunderbird -- here was my scenario:
1. Initially, the "Inbox" was selected, focus in the summary pane.
2. I hit the down arrow key repeatedly to change the selected
message,
walking through each one in order.
3. Some message would cause me to want to look in another folder, so
I'd use the mouse to select the other folder.
4. I'd look for a message in the other folder, selecting various
messages in the summary pane.
5. I'd use the mouse to select "Inbox" again, and notice that it
remembered my selection ("yay!")
6. I'd hit the down arrow key to move to the next message.
7. The focus had remained in the sidebar, so "Inbox" changed to
"Drafts"
8. Thunderbird crashed.
Ok, so the crash has nothing to do with the focus issue, just a
problem with Thunderbird and the state of my Drafts folder :). The
sad/embarassing part is that I repeated the exact same steps 4
times!
Even though the mistake was costly, and even though I had *just*
been
through the same sequence, I kept unconsciously making the same
cognitive error. I believe the variants that Mimi and Alec have
described where the focus remained in the summary pane (most of the
time) would have more closely matched what I wanted/expected.
Cheers,
Katie
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