On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Matthew Toseland
<toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 06 February 2010 04:10:53 Ian Clarke wrote:
>> Pupok sent me a PDF containing a very preliminary mock-up of what the new
>> front page will look like. ?Note that it is a little pixelated, the final UI
>> will not be. ?The general idea is to keep it as simple as possible, and
>> ensure that the UI is intuitive by following established UI conventions.
>
> The new UI moves the bookmarks to a menu. Is that a good idea? I think on the 
> whole it probably is, I'm just a bit worried about expectation management / 
> drawing the user's attention to what is likely to work quickly.
>
> If it is in fact a good idea then we could implement it with the current code 
> relatively easily - we'd need a CSS guru to provide us with nested menu 
> support - and get rid of the activelinks on the minimalist theme, and deploy 
> the minimalist theme as the default. Or we could show the activelinks as part 
> of the menu, or show them anyway but only for sites with activelinks - but I 
> don't want a theme that requires activelinks to be default before web-pushing 
> is merged and enabled by default.

I'm not a CSS guru, but some googling turns up this:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html

>
> Any thoughts on bookmarks as a menu?

I think it's important the the main page we display provide an obvious
answer to "so what do I do now?"  Right now the choices seem to be
"search for something" and "visit a bookmark."  As long as it's clear
what to do from the start page for someone who hasn't used Freenet
before, I'm fine with bookmarks in a menu.

Evan Daniel

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