make simple edit-alternative to double click
Solving this would let us remove the add/edit link under Pointers, offer a nice alterative to double-click-to-edit, and depending on the solution give access to other tabs when not in open/closed view.
Cards in any view (that has card slot info) other than open or closed can be triggered to show the title bar - but translucent - over the top of the card's content.
The trigger could be hovering over the card for a second or so, or clicking on the card content (hrm, that wouldn't work for cards with content that already have a behavior when clicked, e.g. collections with item:link or any text type with only a link as content). Could offer both...
In any case, if the user clicks on the faint title bar, the card's view changes to open - the content slides down, the title bar becomes opaque, and the footer appears at the bottom. If they click on a control in the faint title bar, the click could be processed directly. If we do this, could also have a faint footer appear - this would make for one-click card watching.
If they click View, it goes back to its original view.
Note that this only happens if the card's "+*edit controls" points to "hover" (or "click" depending on how this is triggered). *all+*edit controls defaults to this method being on, and "double click" being off. See Ability to disable double-click-to-edit.
Earlier possibility is a small interface like this:
...that can pop up whenever you hover over an inclusion not in open/closed view, perhaps just offering an edit link for now, but to which we could later add the "More..." menu, which can offer View, Changes, Options/Settings, Related, and from card footers: "Cards" (maybe "Parts" is a better term for this?) with a submenu showing those links, "Last Editor: |name|", and the "watch" link.
Related support tickets:Relevant user stories:add one
The proposed solution here drew in part from What's up with date? I think i got everything from there, but wanted to link just in case...
I like where this is heading.
When I first saw that button, I wondered "what does 'edit more' mean?". We'll probably need to make it visually obvious that they're 2 different things. Probably want something greyscale so it looks good with lots of wagns, and we'll probably want the two.
--Ethan McCutchen.....Mon May 03 12:37:26 -0700 2010
An additional possibility (we want a visible interface in any case) is key commands for save and edit as a non-double-click way to edit cards. For this to be useful, the key command for edit would have to bring up an interface to choose whether to edit the main card of the page, or one of the included cards. This interface would have to be pretty speedy to be useful.
(said John Abbe, a while back, on improve interface around content view inclusions
--Ethan McCutchen.....Tue May 04 15:08:31 -0700 2010
Would handle part 1 of implement watch links as a card
--John Abbe.....Thu Feb 17 11:57:27 -0800 2011
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