Re: [Fofredux-devel] Version 0.7

[Katie B. <ka...@ho...>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:16:28AM +0000, khaled Abou Alfa wrote:
> www.brokenkode.com/fofr­/Version-0.7.jpg
 
I think the 'Add Tag' action may be unnecessary.  In the tag
paradigms I've seen so far, tags exist only by virtue of being
associated with things.  A tag wouldn't exist until the user types
it in to associate with a particular item, and it would cease to
exist when all the items with which it's associated are deleted.  
(This brings to mind the question: where in the new interface do 
we associated categories with feeds and tags with items?)
 
> 9. Now to explain how I see the smaller toolbar . On the left hand side
> those links control the sidebar. So you can select all or unselect all the
> items, and then you can mark them as read or unread. 

I'd suggest renaming the 'mark all read' link there to 'mark as
read'.  When it says 'mark all read', I think the user could
reasonably be confused as to whether all items in all feeds would be
marked as read or whether all items in the selected feeds would be
marked as read.
 
> My idea is and please tell me if this is
> possible, once you click on the 'mark as read' tick box it turns it grey.

I'd suggest changing the 'mark as read' interface from a tick box to
a link, since its action will now be immediate.  Also, I'd suggest
that read items (in gray) have a 'mark as unread' link instead of a
'mark as read' link as does the one in the example.

Perhaps in the right frame, for each item the Categories list could
appear closer to the Site Source over in the upper right area of
each item.  This might help make clear the major distinction between 
categories and tags, that the former apply to feeds and the latter to 
items.

How I currently use fofredux is this: in the panel view I scan down
the list to see which feeds have new items.  I'll then click on the
red links to get to each feed's new items; on that page, I'll either
mark-as-read one by one or click 'mark all items as read' and then
be frustrated that I'm returned to that feed's empty page of new
items instead of to the panel view page.  I've never used the 'flag
all up to this item', 'flag all items', or 'unflag all items' links.
The only reason I don't use the frames view is because of the
inconsistent refreshing of the frames when you do something in one
of them.

(The orthogonality-loving side of me protests that there's no need
for a 'mark all items as read' links when there are 'flag all items'
and 'mark [flagged items] as read' links.  But the actual user side
of me clicks the 'mark all items as read' link every time. :) )

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Katie Bechtold         http://hoteldetective.org/