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Re: GTG Redesign

 

Oy, sorry Pluom, our emails crossed paths! Didn't see yours before I
replied!

Meg

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM, meg ford <meg387@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Alex!
>
> We were talking yesterday in IRC about looking at the core functions of
> gtg so that we can come up with use cases, since it might help us to answer
> some of the awesome questions you are asking. I mentioned that sometimes I
> am really confused by the different views in the UI. Even though the are
> supposed to just filter which tasks I see, sometimes I can't add subtasks
> because they make the tasks disappear, or other tragedies occur!
>
>
>> I made a few new mockups, but i think i'm stuck at a point on which i
>> need a bit feedback, to move forward with other aspects of the applicaton,
>> so i have a few questions for you:
>>
>> - Is everyone ok with the colors?
>>
>
> On #gnome-hackers yesterday I heard part of a conversation about color in
> themes in GNOME. Benjamin Otte, who is one of the GKT maintainers, was
> talking about this conversation: l
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2012-January/msg00016.html
>
> I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet, but it sounded like color might
> be limited right now, so we (or you if you are willing to take it on)
> should look into this before we make firm plans about the color. Does that
> make sense?
>
> - Is everyone ok with the arrangement and wording of the primary toolbar
>> filters? (1)
>> - do you think the sidebar should contain anything besides the tags?
>> - what do you think about the idea of having two buttons in the upper
>> right corner to toggle between a small list view and a task view? (2)
>>
>
> Lets' talk about these things moving forward if that is OK. I really like
> your approach to the toolbars, especially. There might be more iterations
> further down the line (are you OK with doing a lot of versions? I kind of
> hated it when I was working a lot on icons, but in the end I learned a lot
> from rethinking my ideas ad really having a design I was satisfied with.)
>
> Also, I wanted to ask you if you might be willing to do wire frames based
> on the use cases. It would be really helpful to me, and then we can start
> basic and add the detailed ideas that you have.
>
>  - should we stick with the 'empty-task-approach?
>>
>
> Which part is this?
>
>  - what do you think of the task design? (3)
>>
>
> This is my favorite part. I think you've really thought this through, and
> it''s a big improvement over the existing design.
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> BTW: I didn't find a proper gnome symbolic icon for "expand/collapse",
>> any suggestions?
>>
>
> I think it might be a gtk widget in Glade? The symbol I see in Documents
> looks like go-previous-symbolic (circled in red in attached screenshot, let
> me know if you can't open it for some reason), but I'll ask Cosimo what
> he's using.  I think we have a document-new-symbolic icon in progress, too
> (although there was some debate about using the "+" symbol for new in that
> context). I'll see if I can get it included so we can use it for new-task.
>
> Great work here! Let's try to set up an IRC meeting soon!
>
> TTYL,
>
> Meg
>
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
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