286178 - Tasks list has no perceived affordance for clicking in completed/priority columns

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Tasks, enhancement)

Description

[keong_lim+mozilla]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 4.0; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: 2005011112-cal Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

The Tasks list shows a greyed-out summary of all the (non-completed) tasks.  
There is a column for a checkmark to show whether it is completed and a column 
to show its priority.  There is no perceived affordance for clicking in those 
columns, even though it is possible for some things.

Clicking in the checkmark column marks or unmarks the task as completed.  
Clicking in the priority column appears to do nothing.  Both columns look 
identical and there is no indication that the application will accept clicks in 
this area.

There should be an active (i.e. not greyed out) checkbox displayed in the 
checkmark column to indicate that it can be clicked.

There should be an active drop-down priority icon list to change the priority.

There should be an active textbox for inline editing of the title text.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
None.

Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

The '+' flags are reserved for release drivers. Please don't touch those.

Comment 3

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Possible solutions for the Priority column are a drop down menu or cycling through prioritiy options by clicking.

Comment 5

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Dropdown is hard from a technical point of view. Cycling through would be possible, but you could easily accidentally click on the cell and change task priority. Personally I'd vote for WONTFIX, since the task list shouldn't be used for editing (mark as complete is an exception to this rule).

Comment 6

[Pander]

I also support for cycling through the priorities when priority cell is clicked as Martin and Philipp propose. However I do endorse implementing this, as the other voters do. Accidental clicking cannot do a lot of harm as the task will not be deleted.

In order to better support the Getting Things Done (GTD) organizational method ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_things_done ) it would be good to be able to quickly change priority of a task. In this way it is easy to reprioritize what to do. One can set high priority for tasks to work on during this day and quickly reprioritize at the beginning of the next day.

Since, in general, one adds tasks with default priority of Normal, increase priority at the beginning of the working day and complete the task during the day, the cycle should move up in priority: Low -> Normal -> High -> Low -> ... etc. Decreasing priority then involves one or two clicks more. This allow for a minimal average of mouse clicks.

Note that, similarly to the done checkbox, the double click for editing the task should be removed.

Implementing this feature would increase user satisfaction when reprioritization because it will take less mouse clicks and moves in menus to achive the same.