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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex,

I like your mockups, there are really nice.

I like the darker sidebar, I think you're right about the fact that a white
sidebar make GTG look too busy. However, I think the sidebar is too dark
right now. In the spirit of integrating into GNOME, I think we should opt
out for the default darker background color (much like nautilus).

Regarding the "sans" font: it's ok changing it, but let's keep in mind that
this will actually depends on the user's configuration. (I myself used to
use the "ubuntu" font for a while)

Adopting the twitter-syntax for tags and people is indeed a good.
Consistency is important. I agree with you about "contexts", it may indeed
seems a bit too technical/conceptual. Let's stick to "tags" until we have a
better option (I'm not sure "label" or "smart tags" actually add something
to the concept).

For the star-as-priority: I agree with you, it's an interesting idea. I'm
actually curious to play with this idea and see how it works. Maybe you
should add a "Starred" item in the sidebar too to see them.

The synchronization icons in the bottom part of the sidebar is a nice
touch, I like it.

Thanks again for the great work!

Bertrand

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Alexander Barnickel <alba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Hey everyone,
>
> today, i was in the mood to do some mockups. I tried to take all your
> proposals in consideration and focus on synchronization and collaboration.
> I'm not finished yet, but i wanted to give you an update.
>
> First of all, i want to make another proposal. GTG currently uses the "@"
> to define tags, and having in mind that Bertrand would like to see
> collaboration-features, i think it would be better to do it like twitter
> and many other applications and use "#" to define Tags, and "@" to assign
> tags to people.
>
> For example: Write @Angela to do sth. #Work #Important
>
> BTW: I wouldn't use "Context" instead of "Tags", i'm not a native english
> speaker, but i think "Context" might be confusing. The word "Tag" is used
> by so many other applications as well, just think about twitter (almost
> everyone knows what a hashtag is).
>
> If you really want to get rid of "Tags", maybe we could use "Labels"?
>
> So, here is the mockup:
>
>
>
> The most obvious change is the dark sidebar. I've made an other mockup
> with a white sidebar (see light.png), but this led to too much visual
> clutter. In my opinion, the whole interface is much more calm with a dark
> sidebar.
>
> I also switched back to another font, because i hate the standard "Sans"
> font and i think it's ugly as hell.
>
> *View/Filter Controls:*
> I designed the controls in the primary toolbar to filter by time and
> importance, and the controls in the sidebar strictly to filter by tags and
> persons.
>
> Sidebar:
> - Inbox (All Tags)
> - Saved Searches (I'm not satisfied with the default icon of the saved
> searches, any ideas?)
> - Tags (I'll add Groups or Folders where you can group tags tomorrow)
> - People
>
> Primary Toolbar:
> - All Tasks
> - Focus (or Workview)
> - Scheduled (or Next Tasks)
> - Done
> *
> Sidebar:*
> Apart from the new filters, i placed a small "sync-box" at the bottom of
> the sidebar. The Sync-Icon is intended to spin, when GTG is currently
> synchronizing. It shows you all the services which you are connected with
> and gives you the option to add another account.
>
> *Tasks:*
> - I'ts a 2-Row Task again.
> - I retained the star for priorizing tasks, because i think, having visual
> feedback is really important, especially if you have 20+ tasks. Drag&Drop
> and this button are not contradictionary, so i think we should implement
> both (If you drag a task to the top, the star would get yellow as well).
> - Icons for start and due-date (do you think their meaning is clear?)
>
> *To-Do:*
> - Clalendar View
> - Maybe another Summary-Page attempt
> - Groups/Folders for Tags
> - Edit-View
>
>
> P.S.: Maybe, I'll get access to the github repo this weekend, so you can
> get my .xcf files. I have to warn you though, i'm not too ambitious in
> naming the layers :-)
>
> Thats it for now, let me know what you think,
> Alex
>
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Bertrand Rousseau