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== Current Issues (Lightning 0.3)== | |||
The table below lists users feedback regarding the usability of the main Lightning UI. | |||
== Issues: == | |||
# The calendar below the email accounts is disturbing and to big if you also use the "contact sidebar" extension. | |||
# After starting Thunderbird I don't know in which calendar I'm working in. | |||
# I can't drag an event from one calendar into another. | |||
# All the different colors in the week view are confuses me. Especially same things are highlighted differentially. | |||
# The three buttons (New../Edit../Delete) are somehow strange. I think these buttons are good for creating/changed/deleting events. | |||
# I want to switch between E-Mail and Calendar easily. | |||
# Why am I seeing the mail tree when I'm working in the Calendar? | |||
# I don't want to see Saturday and Sunday. I use my calendar only for my work. | |||
# The left side looks very cluttered. | |||
# How can I switch into a different view? | |||
# I have 3 calendars. One for work, the other are subscribed ones. Which means that I don't have write access on these. I don't know how many times I tried accidentally to create an event in one of the read only calendars. | |||
== Proposal == | |||
Most of the issues stated above can be fixed by focusing on the following areas: | |||
=== Rearranging already existing UI elements === | |||
At the moment, Lightning 0.3 combines very important information on the left hand side. From an users point of view these are: | |||
* Access to the E-Mail account (Mail Account Tree), | |||
* Calendar (Mini Moth), | |||
* Agenda List (Agenda Tab), | |||
* Todo List (Todo Tab)and | |||
* List of Calendars (Calendar Tab) | |||
The problem with that solution is that 70% of the visual information is placed on 30% of the screen. | |||
Depending on the task users want to fulfill, each element of the left hand pane has a different importance level. | |||
For the tasks "Write or Read Mail" the order could be: | |||
# Mail Account Tree | |||
# Agenda | |||
# Todo | |||
# Mini Month | |||
# Calendar | |||
For the task "Create Event" the order could be as follows: | |||
# Calendar | |||
# Mini Month | |||
# Agenda | |||
# Todo | |||
# Mail Account Tree | |||
To reduce visual clutter I'd like to propose to split Mail, Calendar and Tasks into three separate modes. | |||
* One view which focuses on mail | |||
* One calendaring. | |||
* One tasks | |||