Posted by Niklas Heidloff | September 18, 2009
Based on feedback from several people I've
updated the rich client discussion prototype. As previously it uses the
Java Views on the 'home page' for a consistent look & feel with the
Notes PIM applications. The second page comes up when you open a topic
or document from a view. This page contains a thread viewer that allows
viewing of other documents of the same thread without having to leave the
page. So users can write their response while they are reading other documents
of the thread.
The biggest change is that the thread
viewer has been moved to the left column (see screenshot below). We want
the same experience on both pages. On the first page there is the view
navigator and the second page now contains the thread/topic navigator.
I'm not good in stylesheets but I've tried to make the topic navigator
look similar to the view navigator (e.g. same background color, same color
for selected entries). From this thread navigator you can open documents
in the preview area at the bottom or you can open documents on their own
page/full screen. As previously the navigator even shows the position of
a new response before it has been saved.