Yeah, we will come up with a better classification.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]> wrote:

> On categorizing, that needs to come as a design decision from ESB and
> mediation experts collectively.
>
> We (tooling team) were looking at this yesterday, and what we have right
> now is only an alphabetical ordering. That is useful only for some cases.
> But even on the classification on the ESB UI is not right, as what we
> understood when we looked at them yesterday. For e.g "Advanced" category
> seemed to be the place where most useful yet complex mediators are located,
> and "advanced" has no meaning.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Srinath Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> Often these flows are understood by look at them as a one unit holistic
>> manner, not by moving mouse to each one. So getting the icons to respond to
>> the mouse might not work.
>>
>> I think we need to either figure out clear icons or put a word that make
>> it clear what each icon does.
>>
>> --Srinath
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Jonathan Marsh <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> My initial impression was that it would be very difficult to comprehend
>>>> and distinguish such a breadth of icons if they are all the same shape and
>>>> color scheme, and differ only in the interior graphics which are pretty
>>>> tiny in all cases.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So +1 to a limited number of categories to help classify different
>>>> basic types, and representing them in different colors and/or shapes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1, we need to categorize, also why do we stick to square type icons and
>>> try to put everything into that ? Why not have icons with different shapes
>>> (of cause meaningful shapes), like funnels, pipes etc, so collectively it
>>> will make much more scene.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, for the complexity of these icons, why are we trying to squeeze
>>>> them into such a tiny space?  Can you really tell at a glance what each of
>>>> these steps and the whole sequence are trying to accomplish?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are some other very cool ways we could push this to the next
>>>> level, for instance place the icons on a isometric 3d (ala sim-city) type
>>>> grid, or have the flows represented by arcs instead of simple linear
>>>> arrows, or adding steps causes an animated restructuring of the flow
>>>> similar to what you see in https://code.google.com/p/gource/, or
>>>> having icons grow as you hover over them like the mac launcher bar…
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1, on hover zooming the icon is a standard practice, we can even stick
>>> a tool tip on hover, which will add more context.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Nuwan
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Jonathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Srinath Perera
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, August 05, 2013 3:37 AM
>>>> *To:* architecture
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Architecture] Developer-Studio Icons
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I prefer Concept 4, basically to draw the idea in EIP icon style
>>>> (simple lines, but too detail picture).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kasun, Chanaka and myself was chatting. I think we need to group icons
>>>> by type (e.g. filters, conditions, transform, do external call ). We can
>>>> use the same grouping we have in palettes, and then all icons have same
>>>> look and feel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some thoughts on concepts
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Log, BAM - stethoscope
>>>>
>>>> Aggregation, Clone, Iterate - EIP aggregator Icon, EIP splitter Icon,
>>>> EIP splitter Icon,
>>>>
>>>> Event - EIP pub/sub icon
>>>>
>>>> Drop, router - EIP  routing diagram
>>>>
>>>> Filter - funnel
>>>>
>>>> Header, Property
>>>>
>>>> OAuth, Entitlement
>>>>
>>>> XSLT, PayloadFactory, Smook
>>>>
>>>> Class, Command - "{java}"
>>>>
>>>> Call, Callout - EIP request, replay Icon
>>>>
>>>> router - EIP Icon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
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> Samisa...
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