Re: Call for Open Design Issues

Okay, in the absence of a concrete plan, I'll make the text consistent 
at least. Can we get that on the list to review at a future date?

Mimi Yin wrote:
> Yes, that's weird that the dialog says Occurrences and then Items. We 
> don't have any immediate plans however.
> 
> On the Desktop, the dialog reads:
> 
> ===
> Recurring Event Change
> ------
> "Event Title" is a recurring event. Do you want to change (remove):
> 
> [Cancel]          [All Events] [Future Events] [This Event]
> ===
> 
> Mimi
> 
> On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Matthew Eernisse wrote:
> 
>>
>> Currently, the text of the dialog is:
>>
>> "This is a recurring event. Which occurrences do you wish to change?"
>>
>> And there are three buttons:
>>
>> All Items, All Future Items, and Only This Item
>>
>> So we have three different terms we're using in kind of a mushy way to 
>> refer both to the entire recurrence series, and the individual items 
>> in the series. Sure, you can likely intuit more-or-less what it means, 
>> but it's not ideal. I think we can do better.
>>
>> A few thoughts:
>>
>> 1. Whatever term we use for the individual occurrences, it should be 
>> the word on the buttons. We shouldn't ask them what they want to do 
>> with certain 'occurrences,' and then say 'items' on the buttons. 
>> Inconsistency is fine, when it serves a significant purpose. 
>> "'Occurrence' is too long a word for a button" doesn't seem that 
>> compelling as a reason to use two different words.
>>
>> 2. I think it might make sense to avoid the word 'event,' since you're 
>> changing/removing more than the event-ness. Can items recur without an 
>> event stamp? If that's possible, you could see this dialog in 
>> association with recurring items in list view that are not even events.
>>
>> I'd like to propose something like this:
>>
>> "This is a recurring item. Which items in the series do you wish to 
>> change?"
>>
>> All Items, All Future Items, and Only This Item
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> p.s. Hope you have a good vacation, Mimi. :)
>>
>>
>> Mimi Yin wrote:
>>> I am leaving for vacation this Saturday for 2 weeks. Are there any 
>>> open issues that need to be resolved before then? Bugs? Mock-ups? etc.
>>> What I currently have on my plate includes:
>>> 1. Staff Mtg Presentation: Setting up KEI Creative to use Chandler to 
>>> collaborate on projects
>>> 2. Syncing up with Philippe for Desktop 1.0 Planning
>>> 3. Preparation for FLOSS Usability Sprint in Nov.
>>> 4. Work through some design issues for Multi-Week view (Reid/Jeffrey)
>>> 5. Sample data set for Desktop OOTB experience
>>> 6. Summarize design list for last couple of weeks
>>> 7. Calendar colors on Chandler Hub
>>> Close out some threads / bugs on the Design List:
>>> + Improvements to the reload dialog has been hanging open for some time.
>>> + Reconciling various sharing URLs
>>> What's missing?
>>> Mimi
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