Comments inline...
On Sep 28, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
Another thing to consider is that in the future, we will have the
independent view selector back in the summary view area, so users
will be able to switch between the table view, the calendar view
and maybe some other crazier view altogether (timeline views,
concept maps views, thumbnail views etc) independent of the
application area that is selected.
I like this! This will separate the "filter" from the "view"
aspect, both performed by the toolbar right now and the source of
the issue we are talking about.
Having external contributors able to provide new innovative views
of data is also something we should encourage. I have a couple of
wacky ideas of my own I'd like to "parcelize" that way... (like the
PCA view :) )
But, I agree it's weird right now that you're in the Calendar and
the In collection and you overlay it with a user-defined
collection, the view switches from Table to Calendar with no
feedback as to why that has happened.
So, what about not forcing the view switching for the moment (in
0.6)? Anyway, as Sheila mentioned, this is a corner case for 0.6
since few people will ever see the In and Out collections.
Since the whole point of 0.6 is to dogfood and get informed feedback,
I think I would vote for leaving the design as is and addressing this
issue (which I do acknowledge is a problem) as part of our evaluation
of feedback for 0.6. We can look at putting in a view selector in for
0.7 if that will be the best solution.
That's my 2 cents...
An alternative we considered was making it impossible to overlay
the In and Out and Trash collections with anything other than the
In, Out and Trash collections. In other words, table view
collections can only be overlayed with other table view
collections. But this felt like yet another exception to throw
into the sidebar checkbox behavior that would make it both more
complicated to implement and harder for the user to grok.
I would stay away of creating UI exceptions and rules. We should
have a UI that's elegant and does not impose or constrain the user.
We can easily imagine cases where overlaying the Out box with a
user defined collection can be useful and make sense.
Cheers,
- Philippe
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