Re: [mylar-dev] dev build for 3.3M7

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Mik Kersten wrote:
> > > They make icon decorations and overlays harder to notice, add to the 
> > > visual noise, and the SDK refrains from using them (e.g. to 
> > > highlight errors in the Package Explorer).
 SDK have feature to use background-based highliting for CVS stuff. So, 
bad excuse you have. :-P
> >  Just for the record, we have discussed it several times and I thoght 
> > that there was an agreement that there is no need to highlight  
> > background in the views other then Task List. Am I wrong?
> My answer to this is in the first three lines above that you quote.  
> To restate it, I think that it is a bad idea for the same reason that 
> it is a bad idea in the Package Explorer.  We already use decorations 
> to bring focus to key elements (e.g. incomings, overdue, etc).  We are 
> using so many dimensions of the UI space already (icons, multiple 
> overlay, foreground decoration, background category decoration) that 
> every combination of the highlight background decoration that I've 
> tried overloads the Task List UI in my opinion.  I was saying that 
> this is analogous to why I think it is a bad idea to do background 
> highlighting in other SDK views (which we also used to do, e.g. for 
> Landmarks).
 It depends. Monotonous views are hard to deal with and hard to pickup 
tasks from list of >10 if those tasks have orthogonal characteristics to 
any sorting or grouping mechanisms provided by Task List view. That is 
why I and few other users found highlighters quite handy to make those 
tasks more noticeable.
> Also, it is important to note that no other user has requested this 
> feature, and the only reason it is in the Sandbox is because you like 
> it.  Naturally I'm happy leaving it there for this reason, but I have 
> to be very careful about projecting what currently appears to be an 
> idiosyncratic use case on others.
 Well, it seems like you have short memory. I will refer you to the 
archive of the mylar-dev list and the newsgroup. Look for complaints 
about disappeared highlighters.

 Also note that average user won't complain about some feature he is 
not aware of. No offense but it is purely lack of imagination.

 regards,
 Eugene