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Re: [mylar-dev] Re: What is the "!" column in the Task List for?
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Hi Eugene and everyone,
As a newbie Mylar developer and user, I wanted to respond to this comment
Lately I see some UI
suggestions from the newcomers and those (when implemented) can severely
break UI experience of the old Mylar users (some of them like me are
using it over a year).
I do agree that it is frustrating when aspects of a UI change once you
have become an expert user, but I think we need to make sure we
consider the needs of newer users as well. For example, the icons and
columns on the Task List view are still a bit of a mystery to me and I
think it would be useful to have tooltips on them.
Everyone who is developing for Mylar is "eating our own dogfood" (I
think), and I think that this creates the risk that the Mylar UI will
be designed for the expert user (i.e. the Mylar developers). just
something to think about, especially since I think we're always trying
to grow the user base...
meghan
regards,
Eugene
David Karr wrote:
> So you're saying the value in the unlabeled "priority" column is
> supposed to be a symbolic value that maps to the priority values of
> the underlying task repository? I'm guessing the intent is to have a
> single set of symbols in Mylar that have a mapping to the
> repository-specific priorities in each task repository. Frankly, that
> doesn't seem like it's worth it. I would think that just using the
> raw priority value from the underlying task repository makes more
> sense. Obviously, that would mean you'd have different kinds of
> values in that column for each task repository, but that's because
> they're different task repositories. I don't see any reason to mask
> those differences. The tradeoff might be that that column might take
> more space.
>
> If the "priority" column is supposed to map to the priority of the
> underlying task repository, why do I only have one task that has a
> value in that column at all?
>
> Also, in the "synchronization" column (or whatever you called it),
> you're devoting an entire single column of this view to data that
> 99.9% of the time will be blank. Since the "synchronizing" state will
> only be present very rarely, why didn't you just try to change the
> visual appearance of the line while synchronizing?
>
> Is it possible to have a tooltip just on the column header that can
> explain what the column is for? Almost any obscure meaning ceases to
> become obscure if you provide some sort of explanation somewhere. If
> you're going to use obscure symbols in the column, provide the key in
> that tooltip.
>
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