.4 Visual Bugs

Status Determining which should be fixed for 0.4 vs. 0.5

• Scale
• Must have
• Really nice to have
• Nice to have
• Fluff

• Background
• Almost done Change color to white (Done, except for Detail view)
• Not done 10 or 15 pixel margins around all buttons and text
• Not done Too much beveling
• Done Remove in-line editing

• Toolbar
• Almost done Icons are fuzzy? Size? 30x30 (Done, except problems on Mac)

• Sidebar
• Not done Light grey selection color
• Done Remove Contacts, Junk and Trash collections
• Done Rename Calendar to Calendar Share Demo
• Almost done No horizontal scrollbar (Done except it does not prevent user from making sidebar too narrow for mini-calendar browser)

• Detail view Mark-up bar
• Moot Remove icon for Triage status
• Moot Triage status pulldown should be middle-aligned
• Moot Remove Junk and Trash from the options
• Moot Reorder Triage options: Now, Later, Done
• Moot Add spacer between Triage pulldown and Stamping buttons
• Not done Stamping buttons need to look different from Kind selectors in Sidebar
• Done Change Message stamp button to "Send as message"
• Done Change Task stamp to "Put on Taskpad"
• Done Change Calendar stamp to "Put on Calendar"
• Done No Needs reply button
• Done No message history buttons
• Done No privacy button
• Visual design TBD for shared items and collections

• Detail view Addressing
• Almost done From: and To: should be "from" and "to" and right-justified (Attribute field widget needs to be spec'd out)
• Done No ":"
• Almost done Left align text fields (Attribute field widget needs to be spec'd out)
• Done Text fields should expand dynamically (no scrollbar)
• Done Subject text field should stretch to the right
• Done Add date field under subject (Kind)
• Not done More space between lines
• Done No people fields for Notes, Tasks and Calendar items
• Almost done Activate send / notify before user leaves "to" field (Should only be activated once user has started to type in the "to" field)
• Almost done No creation date (Need to display the right date attributes in all scenarios. See SummaryTableViewSpec#ColumnMappings for details)

• Detail view Core
• Not done Text should be middle-aligned in text field
• Almost done displayName should be Title for Notes, Tasks and Events and subject for Messages (May be changed. See SummaryTableViewSpec#ColumnMappings for details.)
• Almost done startTime and endTime should be "starts" and "ends" (Date entry widget needs to be implemented)

• Notes Detail view
• Almost done Remove creator field (Needs to be reflected in summary table view)
• Not done Should be able to hit return = Tab

• Messages Detail view
• Almost done Send should be right-aligned (Send is being put in the toolbar)
• Moot Missing Send bar

• Not done Vertical scroll

• Calendar
• Done Center day of week in column
• Not done Get rid of am marking at the top of the time column when you can see 12 noon
• Not done Middle-align back and forward arrows with Text
• Not done Arrows are getting squished on Mac
• Moot Put arrows around Today button
• Not done Buttons don't fit Month and Today date (on Mac)
• Done Today date can be abbreviated: Sep 13, 2004
• Not done Smaller font for dates and time
• Almostdone Border around time block (Anti-aliased border, drop shadows, etc)
• Moot Thicker border for selected item
• Not done Narrower time column
• Done Divider between scrollable calendar and day of week labels
• Done Scroll bar is cut off on the right

• Summary table view
• Not done Default width shouldn't require horizontal scroll (No horizontal scroll bar at all)
• Not done Text in header: Capitalize first letter. Text in parenthese in 2 shades of grey.
• Done Column header is too tall
• Not done Column titles should match detail view labels (not attribute name)
• Not done Column widths should take up entire width of summary table view
• Done Some items about column is hilighted with a different background color
• Done Who and About should get ... if it's too narrow
• Done Left align column headers and add ... if it's too narrow
• Not done should be blank

• Interaction
• Done Too easy to "select to edit" items
• Almost done View layout selector should toggle, one should always be selected (Still too slow)
• Huh? Tabs cycle within Detail view
• Not done New tabs behave funky

• Menus
• File
  • Done New item should be Ctrl-N
  • Done New collection doesn't need to have a keyboard shortcut
  • Done Sync options should be: All, Mail, Shares
• Not done View menu
  • Column sub-menu should be capitalized
  • Change Ad-hoc collections to clusters
  • Remove 2-pane layout
  • Add Split-pane
  • Remove Month view
  • Remove back and forward
• Item menu
  • Done Should we call it Stamping to the user? No.
  • Moot Mark as menu should be just for Triage status
  • Done No Move to option
  • Moot Add to and Move to should have Calendar Share Demo as an option if a calendar item is being selected. Otherwise, they should be greyed out.
• Done Collection menu: We no longer have collection types

post .4

NTH = Nice to have

• Layouts
• Vertical layout
• D-click on summary table item to load detail view in new tab
• DnD 1 tab onto another and / or cmd-click 2 or more tabs to create split-pane view of 2 detail views or 2 summary views

• Toolbar
• Mac OS X System Preferences selectors (for Kind filters)
• Bitmap buttons
• Click and hold bitmap pulldown buttons
• Toolbars need to align with panes below (ie. Sidebar, Summary view, Detail view)
• Toolbar buttons grey out and / or toggle depending on context
• New button changes "default" setting depending on Kind filter selection
• Add "Invite" template to New button. Creates pre-stamped Calendar / Mail item.

• Sidebar
• Sidebar divider between OOTB collections and user-defined label collections
• Grey out collections in kind filters
• Animating icons in sidebar
• Sidebar mini-scroller (like iCal) (NTH)
• Mouseover tri-modal collection selector
• Drag mini-calendar browser tray to show multiple calendars (NTH)
• Sidebar toolbar buttons: Add collection and Open and close mini-calendar browser (NTH)
• 2 selection colors: Grey for selected, Blue for focus

• Summary table view
• Tabs with close button and sync progress (NTH) Would it be easier to implement this as a bookmarks bar?
• Tab bar with DnD hotspots (atleast for Mac)
• Untitled tabs should read: Untitled 1, not Untitled-1
• In-place editing in Summary table: Click and hold to select attribute value for Stamp, Message history (to mark as Needs reply), Triage status columns
• Clusters (see Clusters storyboard)

• Summary calendar view
• Roll-overs to display free / busy time details

• Detail view
• Bitmap buttons in mark-up bar and detail view body
• Mouseover lozenge to select email address for a contact
• "Type over" text fields (NTH)
• Bold, size 14 font for Title / Subject field
• Incoming items and collections: from, to, received (not shown here)
• Outgoing items and collections: to, from, sent (if already sent)
• Stamping buttons can change button state to reflect In v. Out messages and Read, Unread, Draft, Queued, Error status
• Text entry widget
• Label area: Auto-complete lozenges with pull-down checkboxes

• Visual feedback
• DnD feedback (ie. Darken when mousing over a viable target with an item. Flash after drop.)
• Transparency
• Fade-in, Fade out animation
• Animation (ie. loading animation, poof animation)
• Flash
• Visual feedback for collection detail view (ie different background color)
• Feedback text (ie. If the user selects a greyed out collection in the Calendar mode, summary view should display: There are no calendar items in this collection.)

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