[Sum] June 11 - 17

New Threads:

Phil Jones, another Google Summer of Code intern, sent out a summary  
of the project he is working on - Google SoC Project: Quick Entry  
Refinements
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-June/007382.html
+ Phil has a couple of tasks he is starting out with
	+ Adding a switch to the Quick Entry menu item in Chandler which  
will bring the focus to the Quick Entry box in the top right of the  
toolbar.
	+ He will also be expanding the Quick Entry feature so that  
additional commands can be added more easily.
+ Phil was interested in getting some technical feedback on the  
preferred methods for providing plug-in feedback.
+ Jeffrey responded and explained the way we current develop parcels.  
It seems our instructions page is a bit out of date.
+ Philippe added that another one of our summer interns is revising  
the plug-in code so we will be updating all the various instructions.

Mimi started a new thread - Quest to rationalize copy across Chandler  
Project
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-June/007389.html
+ Mimi took a pass a creating a messaging properties to rationalize  
all the user messages and text in Cosmo.

Jeffrey summarized a bugzilla discussion for the design list -  
Calendar UI discussion
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-June/007396.html
+ The discussion relates to bug https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=9513 which has been deferred to future. It's about  
the ordering of items on the calendar canvas and some lozenges  
getting hidden.
+ Jeffrey talked about some of the things we could consider doing in  
the future to address this issue ie: alpha blending, changing  
indentation levels.

Mimi started a new thread on Registering deletes and removes as  
pending changes...
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-June/007397.html
+ Basically in attempting to track down a bug on the office calendar,  
we discovered that we are ignoring deletes and removes from shared  
collections when there are local edits. This means if someone deletes  
or removes and item that gets edited, it simply appears again and you  
don't get notified as part of the pending changes.
+ There is a proposal to fix this problem for non-recurring events  
but Mimi wanted to know what was involved to get this to work  
properly with recurrence and all the associated use cases.


Continued Discussions:

Mimi responded to Vera's Design proposal for progress reporting in  
chandler for your evaluation
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-June/007383.html
+ Mimi and Vera agreed to some modifications/enhancements for Vera's  
proposal.
+ We will not only track the number of items that came into NOW last  
week, we will also include the number that came into LATER.
+ We will also track the number of items in the NOW section that are  
still there from the week before - this gives us some sense of how  
quickly people are working on their current items. This also  
translates to the LATER items as well - get a sense of how long some  
items remain in LATER.
+ We will also track how many items became DONE as well.
+ Vera also added a follow-up that she is planning on integrating the  
report output into a parcel

Andi responded to an old thread - Deleting collections only vs.  
collections and items
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2007-June/007391.html
+ Andre had sent a message to the users list talking asking about  
what circumstances the user is presented with the 2 options to delete  
the collection and delete the collection and items. He thought this  
had something to do with whether or not it was in the dashboard.
+ Andre had suggested we add an additional option for "Deleting  
collection and deleting items in this collection from
all the places where they appear (are included)"
+ Mimi pointed out that we can also satisfy Andre's use case with  
multi-select and delete.
+ We are not sure if this will work for Preview or not.

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