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Alexander Shorin commented on COUCHDB-2235:
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[~rnewson]
I was asked about filling the issue, I filed it.
The issue type isn't bug or feature, it's a question. If I cannot ask about the
reasons of such decision, I'll convert it into the bug as functional
degradation.
I don't promote own personal opinion, I'm doing review and providing feedback.
If Fauxton team doesn't need in it, I'll stop to do that.
> CouchDB logo location on sidebar: at the top or at the bottom?
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> Key: COUCHDB-2235
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2235
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Question
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: Fauxton
> Reporter: Alexander Shorin
>
> In COUCHDB-2234 was point about CouchDB logo location on sidebar. Why I said
> that it's ugly and doubtful decision?
> 1. Fauxton looses brand context. When you open the main page the hot eyes
> spot is the sidebar top and middle of the page with database names. In fact,
> you didn't see the logo at the bottom unless you'll look on it. Actually, no
> one web site provides hot spot for bottom corners (except for the right one,
> but that's Windows users specific) - you may easily ensure in that by reading
> about eye tracking technique.
> Why this is bad? There is Fauxton for CouchDB, Cloudant, I know there is port
> for PouchDB. Refuge.io may be also take Fauxton instead of Futon. Anyway,
> there are couple of products which are uses Fauxton and actually they only
> difference between by two moments: colour schema (if project has designer and
> spent time to rewrite all the styles) and project logo (which is easily to
> fix since you don't have to be designer or spend a lot of time for fixing
> css).
> So we have the quite awkward situation: we're opening Fauxton and we don't
> know which product it belongs to until we explore all the corners. Also note,
> that CouchDB logo in Fauxton is out of hot eyes spot since it shares overall
> design colour schema.
> 2. Loosing functionality. In Futon and for old Fauxton sidebar the logo
> served two proposes: branding and implicit button to collapse sidebar. Now
> they are split into two different elements which causes:
> - reducing available space for real "burger" menu elements. Actually, for
> height 768 px (13'' screen) there is no more free space for new menu items:
> every new ones will causes scroll bar which makes design ugly.
> - reducing functionality. What's your expectations when you're clicking on
> the logo? Returning back to home - that's intuitive and expected behaviour.
> As for Futon UX, collapsing sidebar not much expected, but also not harmful.
> Now the logo is just a nice picture that does nothing, but consumes valuable
> visible space that could be used more effectively.
> As far as I see, there is no reasonable explanation of having logo at the
> bottom of sidebar, so I wonder what was the reasons for doing this.
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