Usability issues

Laurent Duperval <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:21:52 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mr-project.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I have a few comments on usability for Mr Project. Before I start adding 
them in bugzilla, I want to make sure I'm doing things right and this is 
what is intented.

    * The main issue, and I've mentioned this before, is the lack of
      keyboard shortcuts. Having to do absolutely everythin using the
      mous is fastidious at best. Here are some things to think about:
          o Add shortcuts for the most-used operations (move up/down,
            indent, unindent are prime examples)
          o Use the +/- way of setting dates that gnucash uses. When you
            press +, the day goes up by 1. When you press -, it goes
            down my 1. Ctrl-+ goes forward one week, Alt-+ goes forward
            one month and I think there's another shortcut for going
            forward one year
          o If the above can't be done, then at least give an option to
            enter the date manually, instead of using the drop-down
            calendar.

    * Adding a new task always adds it at the beginning of the project.
      I don't know if it's a standard but Id like other options. It
      wouldn't bother me as much if I couldtype in dates, mind you.
    * I find that entering dependencies in the task view is too long.
      Maybe a shortcut for link to prevous or link to next would be useful.
    * MP doesnT always scoll to the correct place. For example, I
      inserted a subtask and unindented it and it move it to the end,
      but witout changing the view. I thought I'd lost my data. I woul
      have expected the task to bee unindented in-place (better) or the
      view to change to where the task wa moved (not as good).

That's all for now.

L

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