selva r wrote:
Selva, This is one of many suggestions that is completely disconnected from the actual product that OSAF is creating. It seems more like you're designing your own product in your head and using OSAF's design list as a place to dump your ideas. We already have 3 products (Chandler, Cosmo, Scooby) that are being designed list. We don't need another one. I say this not because I don't understand what you're saying. I understand what a Tab is. I understand what a subapplication is. We've said many times that we're not doing "subapplications" and I'm not sure how you're suggesting tab content when there hasn't even been a coherent proposal to have tabs in the first place. In fact, we removed the tabs from the product over a year ago. There has also been no coherent proposal for a "slide in / slide out Calendar Day view panel" that you described earlier. You've gone into great detail describing what each of these features are, but have yet to explain how they fit into the existing design of Chandler - the product that we offer for download, the one that really exists. I might suggest that before you make new posts that go into great detail about your own proposals to this design list, you stop and instead ask yourself if anyone has even validated the original proposal for Chandler. Has anyone actually replied and said "that seems like a good idea, could you explain?" My feeling is that most people read your long descriptions and throw up their hands with frustration because they don't know what you're talking about. I have yet to see anyone reply to say that one of your proposals is a good idea, and I'm sure one of the reasons is because nobody understands what your proposals have to do with Chandler. They say pictures speak louder than words. Why don't you try getting a drawing program of some kind, and start creating mockup-screenshots of the designs you've proposed? The easiest way to do this is to start with a screenshot of the real Chandler, and then modify it in a drawing program to make it look like you'd like to see it look. This is how we do many of our proposals. In fact, please don't start with anything other than a real Chandler screenshot - we're not going to be redesigning the UI anytime soon so it would be best if your proposals were iterations on our existing product rather than some far-out proposal for a product that doesn't exist. Instead of page-long descriptions of features nobody understands, we would at least see what you're talking about visually. You may have noticed that many of mimi's proposals include screenshots of what the product might look like and thus people are able to understand her designs and give constructive feedback. She also provides multiple alternatives in a visual form. For making your mockups, here are a few options: 1) The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ - absolutely free, though a little hard to use 2) Fireworks - http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/ - very easy to use, have a 30-day trial version 3) Photoshop http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ - also offers a 30-day trial version I'm sure there are many other free options out there. Alec
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