Re: Re: [Cosmo] Add/Remove Collections buttons

Travis Vachon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.osaf.design
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Color me convinced enough that I'm willing to see it in action!

Also, regarding the original discussion wrt add/delete for 0.9:

Unless anyone is -1 I'm going to do this in the easiest way I can see  
for now given the time constraints. Once we have something it will be  
much easier to talk about, and we can reconsider the design at that  
point.

-Travis

On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:

> Two centrinos from an end-user...in the Desktop app, I nearly always  
> use
> the context menu when possible. In fact, I mistakenly try and use the
> context menu on items in the search results table even though muscle
> memory alone should remind me that it's not available there thus
> necessitating a trip to the Item menu. Context menus on the Hub  
> would be
> great in that users would be able to apply their common usage patterns
> within the Chandler suite regardless of infrastructure.
>
> Matthew Eernisse wrote:
>> Travis Vachon wrote:
>>> Like a right click context menu? How would that work? Are you
>>> suggesting catching the right click event and not popping the normal
>>> browser context menu? I always find that ugly and not what I want,
>>> but I suppose I'd be open to being convinced otherwise.
>>
>> I'm not normally in favor of the right-click in Web apps either,
>> although I suspect more than a small part of that is my developer hat
>> talking (not wanting something to keep me from getting to the
>> right-click browser menu).
>>
>> As long as it's not trapping right-click for the entire page, and  
>> it's
>> confined to specific, obvious parts of the UI (the Collection
>> Selector, the lozenges), I think it might be workable.
>>
>> We got fairly consistent commentary from the FLOSS Usability Sprint
>> that a context menu could be really helpful for certain common
>> actions. Granted, it's UX people talking, not normal end-users, but
>> the feedback was pretty universal.
>>
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>
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