Re: [Cosmo] Re: FLOSS usability sprint report

I forgot something important on this issue. I think a big reason why  
'selected collection' has usability issues right now is that we're  
not providing the visual feedback we provide on the Desktop client in  
the calendar canvas itself. In particular, all the events in the the  
selected collection aren't coming to the top of the canvas *and*  
there's nothing visually distinguishing the selected collection from  
merely overlaid collections.

Additional bugs to reconsider for 1.0

+ Bring events in selected collection to the top of the canvas
- https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11003

+ Visually distinguish between selected collection and overlaid  
collections
- https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11354

+ Beef up collection and item selection highlight
- Collection selection: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=11355
- Item selection: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi? 
id=8481

I will start a separate thread on the detail view.

Mimi

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

>> Users didn't perceive the "i" icon as obviously a letter "i," nor  
>> did they understand what the button did. One of the test users  
>> popped up the Info dialog, and reflexively and immediately closed it.
>>
>> Use of checkboxes to indicate overlay state was confusing due to  
>> the fact that checkbox often means something is selected. This is  
>> compounded by the fact that the selection indicator in the Web UI  
>> is way too lightweight.
>
> Is there any reason why we don't use the same convention we do on  
> the desktop?

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