Improve Panorama interactions

Status

Improve Panorama interactions
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	List of must-have and nice-to-have decided, work ongoing.

Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Alex Limi
Lead engineer	Tim Taubert
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Virgil Dicu
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Panorama has a lot of small interaction problems, and some conceptual problems too. We'd like to spend some time to eliminate as many of these as we can. We'd like to bundle these up as a feature page for ease of tracking — especially since some of the issues are related, and need to land in the same release.

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

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Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

The designs are mostly smaller interaction problems and confusing conceptual models. We have filed bugs for the individual issues (see the relevant bug section below), but overall, these are the issues we're addressing:

Must-have:

• You can't click a group to activate the whole group (Creating a new group and clicking in it should just create a blank new tab) (Don't show the drag cursor on groups now that entering the group is the dominant operation. Dragging could still work, of course.) (Remove New Tab button)
• When creating a new group, autofocus the title field (also for creating groups by dragging)
• Tabs should not be able to exist without a group
• A "new group" control
• An exit control
• A text field to filter instead of the search icon

Nice-to-have:

• Multiselect is not supported in groups
• Blank groups with no name get removed, shouldn't

Stuff we are undecided about or don't know current state of:

• Never show me groups when I haven't asked (closing the last tab in a group, Aero Peek)
• Minimize need for manual positioning and grouping
• Groups from Panorama could show in List All Tabs — but we should probably just show the group names, not individual tabs. Related: bug 596017

Fixed:

• FIXED: Private mode ungroups your tabs
• FIXED: When you close the last tab in a group, you automatically get sent to another open group, is this what we want?
• FIXED: Hitting Cmd-W when in panorama removes the selected tab, which is unexpected (it feels like a window operation at that point)
• WONTFIX: You can't detach a group to a window
• FIXED: Text editing doesn't support arrow keys

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

Must-have Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 607108	focus group name field after creating new group	Landed
Bug 630792	Add a close button and small toolbar to Tab View	Design needed
Bug 654721	Remove the "orphan tab" concept from Panorama	Landed
Bug 663611	display pointer cursor when hovering tab groups	Landed
Bug 663612	clicking a group should zoom into the group's active tab	Landed
Bug 663613	remove "new tab" button from groups	Landed
Bug 663614	remove double-click to create a new tab in a group	Landed
Bug 663622	notify the user that session restore was enabled	Landed

Nice-to-have Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 583435	Control/Command Click in Tabcandy should select multiple tabs (shift-click should select a range)
Bug 663421	Don't close empty groups automatically	Landed
Bug 663617	highlight tab groups when hovering them

Undecided Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 596017	Combine the Panorama button and the List Tabs button and list all tabs+groups in List Tabs drop-down	Design needed
Bug 654295	Closing last tab of a group doesn't show Panorama	Landed
Bug 649316	allow closing tabs in panorama with del and cmd+backspace	Waiting for review
Bug 607383	Reduce redundant display of app tabs in panorama view	Design needed
Bug 617454	faster zoom with imposter technique (particularly for slower machines)

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

Priority	P2
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
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Engineering team	Desktop front-end

Team status notes

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