[Cosmo] What to do with the Detail View?

I've been playing around with re-working the detail view.

I think there's a real decision to be made between continuing to make  
improvements to the current detail view and/or making a more radical  
move to the 'Nice-to-have' designs we threw around way back when,  
when we were exploring post-Preview designs.

Here are some mockups: http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/CosmoFloss

Short-term goals include:
1. Introduce stamping icons to the detail view

2. Less is more! Continue to work on stripping down the DV as much as  
possible, mostly in the form of attribute labels.
+ Make sure there's enough space for a healthy-sized Notes field (by  
default).
+ Make sure that there's enough room to display all relevant meta- 
data when an item is both addressed *and* on the calendar.

3. Morphology and Layout: Break up the fields to improve readability.  
The Addressing fields + Event fields add up to a lot of form fields  
in a row. Englarging the Title field and inserting it between these 2  
field-laden stamping sections gives the detail view a more readable  
shape.

4. Make sure we maintain the connection between the stamping  
affordance and the grouping of attributes that are added as a result  
of the stamp (IOW, the opening and closing stamping sections).

At the bottom of the page is a link to the original PDF proposal for  
a fancy-shmancy 2-part detail view that appears at the bottom of the  
window + a mock-up that updates that design with a riff on the 'in- 
place stamping expansion' we have today.

ALL of these mock-ups are intended to be jumping off points for  
discussion and iteration.

The question before us is: What's our strategy for 1.0? Iterative  
improvements on what we have today? OR rehaul DV for the long-run.

Mimi

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