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Originally Posted by bcalloway
@Curt-
I meant single-clicking on a project in the sidebar.
@whpalmer4
Cool, I hear what you're saying, and that is exactly how it happens on my OF. It just seems really backwards for it to do that. It would be great to have a Preference to declare a "Default View" or "Inherit Perspectives View". If a project selected in the sidebar does not belong to a Perspective, then there is no way to set its view (unless you select a Perspective beforehand that contains the view).
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Ah, okay, I see what you are saying. I don't think it would be unreasonable to have some means of telling OF what the default view should look like. I'm not so sure that it makes sense to snap to that default view as soon as you change the sidebar selection, though. If I'm looking at one project in a given viewing style, I'm probably going to want to look at the next one the same way. If not, I have a different perspective to use. So, I've got a perspective for doing my inbox processing, which has all the columns, as I'll want to fill all that stuff in if I know it, and it will only show the Inbox. Reviewing projects, I'll want the dates but don't need the sidebar. My flagged view is for stuff that needs to be done now, so no need for dates and in the tickler view of things starting today, again, no need for dates. The only perspective that I have which selects content for me in the sidebar is one done to consolidate some contexts which sometimes overlap (for grocery shopping at different stores) but the grouping there isn't one I find useful for other things, so instead of clicking something in the sidebar, I select the appropriate perspective for what I'm doing next. Yes, I realize this last case could be used as an argument for your default view notion, except in my case, about half the time the default view wouldn't be the one I'd want.
What happens in your scheme if you want to include a project (or a context) in more than one perspective? What if you click on more than one project (or context) and they belong to different perspectives? I think the "the perspective is a property of the project" idea has some problems in this regard, and I'll bet (not very much) that it might have been a factor in why Omni chose to go with the current scheme.