Improve Panorama interactions

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:

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:

• 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:

• minimize need for manual positioning and grouping
• partial thumbnails
• titles should eliminate redundant text
• Groups = Windows
• App tabs need to be global to windows

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