Improve Panorama interactions: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:32, 14 June 2011

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Improve Panorama interactions	List of must-have and nice-to-have decided, work ongoing.	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. 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.

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

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

Next Steps & Open Issues

Work on the bugs
Wireframes/interaction spec for the bugs that need it
Figure out if there's any way to improve zoom performance, or if another approach is a better solution

Related Bugs & Dependencies

Risks

Test Plans

Goals

Non-Goals

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