Re: [Proposal] What is Chandler supposed to do anyway?

On Dec 8, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> hank williams wrote:
>> I just realized that mimi is saying there is some code difficulty in
>> doing what I am describing. Overlays are hard to do in the table  
>> view.
>> This *really* should be addressed because it is a core metaphor  
>> issue.
>
> I could not find a bug for this, so I filed
> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11618
>
>> By the way, overlay is another one of those words that is not
>> necessary. All you are doing is selecting calendars. google calendars
>> doesnt need fancy jargon to describe this feature.
>

This is the simplest and most obvious way to implement "overlays" and  
was proposed in the past. There are some problems with it, e.g.  
selecting normally deselects everything else, which might not be what  
you want, and shift-click is used to add to the selection. Shift-click  
is a hidden feature that most users don't know about. However, our  
current check mark in the sidebar is probably not anymore obvious to  
most users than shift-click.

> Hmm, this might work. Selection and overlay are different things as
> currently implemented, but it seems to me like we could get rid of the
> whole overlay terminology and icons: collections are either selected  
> or
> not (and multi-select would effectively mean overlay).
>
> Overlay was also one of the terms I had trouble with when translating
> Chandler to Finnish; selection would be easy.
>
> -- 
>  Heikki Toivonen
>
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