Improve Panorama interactions: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:10, 9 June 2011

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Simplify Panorama UI	Initial list of improvements ready, needs bugs + developer estimates	N/A	Alex Limi

Summary

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.

Team

Feature Manager: Alex Limi
Lead Developer: Tim Taubert
Product Manager:
QA: George Carstoiu (irc: GeorgeCarstoiu)
UX: Alex Limi
Accessibility:
Security:
Privacy:

Release Requirements

Designs

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.)
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

Already fixed:

FIXED: Private mode ungroups your tabs (still the case?)
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

Next Steps & Open Issues

Talk to the Panorama team about prioritization and estimates
Make sure all of these have bugs filed
Wireframes/interaction spec for the bugs that need it

Related Bugs & Dependencies

Risks

Test Plans

Goals

Non-Goals

Other Stuff

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-== Designs ==
+== Designs  ==
-Make functionality more discoverable:
-* a new group control
-* an exit control
-* a text field to filter instead of the search icon
-Interaction issues that need to be fixed:
+'''Must-have:'''<br>
-* You can't click a group
-* You can't detach a group to a window
-* When creating a new group, autofocus the title field
-* Multiselect is not supported in groups
-* Text editing doesn't support arrow keys
-* Private mode ungroups your tabs (still the case?)
-* Creating a new group and clicking in it should just create a blank new tab
-* When you close the last tab in a group, you automatically get sent to another open group, is this what we want?
-* Hitting Cmd-W when in panorama removes the selected tab, which is unexpected (it feels like a window operation at that point)
-* Groups from Panorama should show in List All Tabs: bug 596017
-* Tabs should not be able to exist without a group
-* Dragging shouldn't be outside of the title bar
-* Never show me groups when I haven't asked (closing the last tab in a group, Aero Peek)
-Other issues that will probably need separate feature pages, but that we mention here for completeness:
+*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.)<br>
-* minimize need for manual positioning and grouping
+*When creating a new group, autofocus the title field (also for creating groups by dragging)<br>
-* partial thumbnails
+*Tabs should not be able to exist without a group <br>
-* titles should eliminate redundant text
+*a new group control<br>
-* Groups = Windows
+*an exit control<br>
-* App tabs need to be global to windows
+*a text field to filter instead of the search icon<br>
+'''Nice-to-have:'''<br>
+*Multiselect is not supported in groups
+*Blank groups with no name get removed, shouldn't<br>
+'''Stuff we are undecided about or don't know current state of:'''<br>
+*Never show me groups when I haven't asked (closing the last tab in a group, Aero Peek) <br>
+*minimize need for manual positioning and grouping<br>
+*Groups from Panorama could show in List All Tabs — but we should probably just show the group names, not individual tabs. Related: bug 596017 <br>
+'''Already fixed:'''<br>
+*FIXED: Private mode ungroups your tabs (still the case?)<br>
+*FIXED: When you close the last tab in a group, you automatically get sent to another open group, is this what we want?<br>
+*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<br>
+*FIXED: Text editing doesn't support arrow keys <br>
+<br>
 == Next Steps & Open Issues ==