Good morning Brooklyners! When developing the Blueprint Composer which is now part of Brooklyn UI, we (as in Cloudsoft) decided to use the left panel for both the palette as well the spec editor (i.e. the configuration panel appearing when you select entity on the graph) This was done mainly because of the simplicity of the solution, but also because we felt at the time that having 2 panels would take too much real estate.
However, based on the feedback we got up until now, it's confusing for users to reuse the same space for different contexts. Therefore, I would propose to separate out the palette and the spec editor, placing the former on the left and the latter on the right. I made a PR that goes in this direction[1] which also adds niceties around palette customisations. I would greatly appreciate feedback either on this thread or directly on the PR. If you feel not having enough experience with Angular/Javascript, general feedback on whether or not this is a good idea or look&feel is more than welcomed. Best. [1] https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-ui/pull/84 -- Thomas Bouron Senior Software Engineer *Cloudsoft <https://cloudsoft.io/> *| Bringing Business to the Cloud GitHub: https://github.com/tbouron Twitter: https://twitter.com/eltibouron Need a hand with AWS? Get a Free Consultation.
