Hi, -- Message from Frank Niessink (29.12.2009 17:12) > > > 2009/12/29 Michael Jaeger <[email protected] > <mailto:michael.jaeger%40in-flux.de>>: > > However, what do you think > > of a (configurable) pop-up dialog that asks the user for a titel and a > > description when the stopwatch is started? > > I have a couple of thoughts, actually: > - Why at start of the stopwatch and not at the end? > This is a good point. Probably we should allow for both -- a description at the beginning and at the end (see below).
> - Efforts take their title from the task they belong to. Are you > proposing to have titles for efforts, in addition to the task subject? > No, sorry, I thought it was possible to edit the title, but found out by myself, that it is simply inherited which is fine. > - Another configurable option. Experience shows that people find it > very hard to understand, or even find, the options. You yourself > didn't even find out that efforts have descriptions. That only shows > that making the user interface intuitive is hard. Configurable options > usually don't make the user interface more intuitive. Would there be a > way to implement this without adding another option? > Well, it would probably be good idea to show something like a "bubble" on starting and stopping the stopwatch which only exists for a couple of seconds and which allows the user to edit the description on clicking on the bubble (on linux this is called desktop notification). What do you think of this? The bubble could probably be enhanced with the hint that, e.g., holding the CONTROL-Key while klicking on the task to start/stop automatically opens the description dialog or something like that. All the best, Michael.
