Improve Panorama interactions
Status
| Improve Panorama interactions | |
| Stage | Development |
| Status | In progress |
| Release target | ` |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | List of must-have and nice-to-have decided, work ongoing. |
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Team
| Product manager | Asa Dotzler |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Alex Limi |
| Lead engineer | Tim Taubert |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Virgil Dicu |
| UX lead | Alex Limi |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | ` |
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Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Panorama has a lot of small interaction problems, and some conceptual problems too. We'd like to spend some time to eliminate as many of these as we can. We'd like to bundle these up as a feature page for ease of tracking — especially since some of the issues are related, and need to land in the same release.
This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)
2. Users & use cases
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3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
The designs are mostly smaller interaction problems and confusing conceptual models. We have filed bugs for the individual issues (see the relevant bug section below), but overall, these are the issues we're addressing:
Must-have:
- You can't click a group to activate the whole group (Creating a new group and clicking in it should just create a blank new tab) (Don't show the drag cursor on groups now that entering the group is the dominant operation. Dragging could still work, of course.) (Remove New Tab button)
- When creating a new group, autofocus the title field (also for creating groups by dragging)
- Tabs should not be able to exist without a group
- A "new group" control
- An exit control
- A text field to filter instead of the search icon
Nice-to-have:
- Multiselect is not supported in groups
- Blank groups with no name get removed, shouldn't
Stuff we are undecided about or don't know current state of:
- Never show me groups when I haven't asked (closing the last tab in a group, Aero Peek)
- Minimize need for manual positioning and grouping
- Groups from Panorama could show in List All Tabs — but we should probably just show the group names, not individual tabs. Related: bug 596017
Fixed:
- FIXED: Private mode ungroups your tabs
- FIXED: When you close the last tab in a group, you automatically get sent to another open group, is this what we want?
- FIXED: Hitting Cmd-W when in panorama removes the selected tab, which is unexpected (it feels like a window operation at that point)
- WONTFIX: You can't detach a group to a window
- FIXED: Text editing doesn't support arrow keys
Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
Must-have Bugs
| Bug | Description | Status |
| Bug 607108 | focus group name field after creating new group | Landed |
| Bug 630792 | Add a close button and small toolbar to Tab View | Design needed |
| Bug 654721 | Remove the "orphan tab" concept from Panorama | Landed |
| Bug 663611 | display pointer cursor when hovering tab groups | Landed |
| Bug 663612 | clicking a group should zoom into the group's active tab | Landed |
| Bug 663613 | remove "new tab" button from groups | Landed |
| Bug 663614 | remove double-click to create a new tab in a group | Landed |
| Bug 663622 | notify the user that session restore was enabled | Landed |
Nice-to-have Bugs
| Bug | Description | Status |
| Bug 583435 | Control/Command Click in Tabcandy should select multiple tabs (shift-click should select a range) | |
| Bug 663421 | Don't close empty groups automatically | Landed |
| Bug 663617 | highlight tab groups when hovering them |
Undecided Bugs
| Bug | Description | Status |
| Bug 596017 | Combine the Panorama button and the List Tabs button and list all tabs+groups in List Tabs drop-down | Design needed |
| Bug 654295 | Closing last tab of a group doesn't show Panorama | Landed |
| Bug 649316 | allow closing tabs in panorama with del and cmd+backspace | Waiting for review |
| Bug 607383 | Reduce redundant display of app tabs in panorama view | Design needed |
| Bug 617454 | faster zoom with imposter technique (particularly for slower machines) |
Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
` {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |Feature overview=Panorama has a lot of small interaction problems, and some conceptual problems too. We'd like to spend some time to eliminate as many of these as we can. We'd like to bundle these up as a feature page for ease of tracking — especially since some of the issues are related, and need to land in the same release.
This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.) |Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=` |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=The designs are mostly smaller interaction problems and confusing conceptual models. We have filed bugs for the individual issues (see the relevant bug section below), but overall, these are the issues we're addressing:
Must-have:
- You can't click a group to activate the whole group (Creating a new group and clicking in it should just create a blank new tab) (Don't show the drag cursor on groups now that entering the group is the dominant operation. Dragging could still work, of course.) (Remove New Tab button)
- When creating a new group, autofocus the title field (also for creating groups by dragging)
- Tabs should not be able to exist without a group
- A "new group" control
- An exit control
- A text field to filter instead of the search icon
Nice-to-have:
- Multiselect is not supported in groups
- Blank groups with no name get removed, shouldn't
Stuff we are undecided about or don't know current state of:
- Never show me groups when I haven't asked (closing the last tab in a group, Aero Peek)
- Minimize need for manual positioning and grouping
- Groups from Panorama could show in List All Tabs — but we should probably just show the group names, not individual tabs. Related: bug 596017
Fixed:
- FIXED: Private mode ungroups your tabs
- FIXED: When you close the last tab in a group, you automatically get sent to another open group, is this what we want?
- FIXED: Hitting Cmd-W when in panorama removes the selected tab, which is unexpected (it feels like a window operation at that point)
- WONTFIX: You can't detach a group to a window
- FIXED: Text editing doesn't support arrow keys
|Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes===== Must-have Bugs ====
| Bug | Description | Status |
| Bug 607108 | focus group name field after creating new group | Landed |
| Bug 630792 | Add a close button and small toolbar to Tab View | Design needed |
| Bug 654721 | Remove the "orphan tab" concept from Panorama | Landed |
| Bug 663611 | display pointer cursor when hovering tab groups | Landed |
| Bug 663612 | clicking a group should zoom into the group's active tab | Landed |
| Bug 663613 | remove "new tab" button from groups | Landed |
| Bug 663614 | remove double-click to create a new tab in a group | Landed |
| Bug 663622 | notify the user that session restore was enabled | Landed |
Nice-to-have Bugs
| Bug | Description | Status |
| Bug 583435 | Control/Command Click in Tabcandy should select multiple tabs (shift-click should select a range) | |
| Bug 663421 | Don't close empty groups automatically | Landed |
| Bug 663617 | highlight tab groups when hovering them |
Undecided Bugs
| Bug | Description | Status |
| Bug 596017 | Combine the Panorama button and the List Tabs button and list all tabs+groups in List Tabs drop-down | Design needed |
| Bug 654295 | Closing last tab of a group doesn't show Panorama | Landed |
| Bug 649316 | allow closing tabs in panorama with del and cmd+backspace | Waiting for review |
| Bug 607383 | Reduce redundant display of app tabs in panorama view | Design needed |
| Bug 617454 | faster zoom with imposter technique (particularly for slower machines) |
|Feature landing criteria=` }}
Feature details
| Priority | P2 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | User Experience |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Desktop front-end |
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Team status notes
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| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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