Charm browser defaulting to open

[Richard Harding]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Benji York wrote:

> While doing the QA for the most recent Juju GUI release, I noticed that
> the charm browser is visible by default.
>
> I suspect this is intended to make the user aware of the charm browser's
> existence but I strongly suspect that the first thing a long-term user
> of the GUI will do when launching the app is to close the browser.
> (While muttering under their breath.)
>
> Perhaps we can ameliorate the issue by recording the open/close state of
> the charm browser in the web browser's sessionStorage.

I definitely agree with you. It's a balance of exposing the default charms
information (new, popular, etc) to new-ish users and making it as
down/dirty tool for heavy users. We're defaulting to on now and hashed over
it quite a bit. I know in our discussions we definitely talked of ideas of
allowing storing last open configuration, allowing to be set to default to
minimized, etc.

The one thing we need is to train the users that the 4-way icon on the left
indicates the browser is there. The big fear with defaulting to minimized
is that people would completely miss that there's a tool hiding behind that
icon.

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Rick Harding

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