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+# Rationale
+
+The current (~R2.1) load times of the Tracks home page are quite long (4+ seconds with 80 - 120 actions), even after Reinier's pre-rendering and storing of action notes in the database.  In addition the small buttons / handles for the drop down menu, edit menu and dragging of actions are hard to hit on tablets.
+
+So the question is how can we improve the design and performance of the home page?
+
+## Proposal 1
+**Design points**  
+
+1.  Eliminate hard to hit targets (edit icon, drag icon, dropdown menu icon), keeping only the 'completed' checkbox and the star
+2. Make the description of the todo (i.e., the large text) do something useful
+3. Eliminate the drop down menu, which takes up 40% of the server rendering time
+
+**Implementation**  
+
+1. Clicking the description opens the existing edit form
+2. The functions that were in the drop down menu reside in the edit form now
+3. The buttons in the edit form are on top, so if one just wants to defer an action the mouse / finger does not have to move all the way to the bottom of the form
+4. Dragging the description allows to drag the action into new contexts or make it a dependent action (as before with the drag icon)
+
+[[images/Fast UI Mockup.png]]
+
+**Code**  
+Patch is attached to [Ticket #1279](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/1279/)
+It applies cleanly against the 2.1 release branch as of 4/19/12.  To try it in your environment do:
+
+    cd /var/www/tracks  
+    patch -p1 --dry-run <~/faster_ui_patch_v2  | less  # Confirm that it will apply
+    git status 
+    git branch fast_ui # Try it in a branch
+    patch -p1  <~/faster_ui_patch_v2  | less # Apply the patch
+    rm public/stylesheets/tracks-cached.css  # Don't forget this
+    service httpd restart  # Or whatever you do if you're not using passenger
+
+**Issues**  
+
+1. Dragging todos does not work on tablets yet
+2. If inside a context the last action does not have a project or a note or a dependency then it will extend outside the container
+
+## Relevant Tickets
+
+[#1279](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/1279/)
+
+[#1249](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/1249/)
+
+[#542](http://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets/542/)