Andrea Aime wrote:
> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
>   
>> First off I want to say that its looking great, some great work was done 
>> while I was away. However there are a few things i noticed today while 
>> hooking up persistence. I am curious as to other peoples thoughts.
>>
>> * use of word "Manager"
>>
>> It seems redundant. I mean... we could call everything a "manager" that 
>> is used to configure. What was wrong with "Resources", "Namespaces", and 
>> "Styles" in the menu?
>>     
>
> I don't mind the names either way.
>
>   
I am in agreement with Justin on this.
>> * feedback under page heading
>>
>> Feedback messages appear above the page heading and description. I think 
>> it might be a bit nicer if it apperd below the heading, and above the 
>> rest of the page content. Or maybe on the right hand side of the page so 
>> that none of the main content on the page shifts up and down.
>>     
>
> jdeolive++
> It's easy to move too, just change its location in the main page.
>
>   
I don't think we should put the feedback messages in the sidebar, they 
are a 'local' thing and sidebar stuff is 'global.'  Above or below the 
title doesn't feel like it makes a big difference to me though.  (Maybe 
we could move page titles into the page header?)
>> * use of icons vs buttons
>>
>> On the resources page, we have icons for add,edit,delete, but on the 
>> namespaces and style pages we have buttons with words on them. I am 
>> wondering if we could make these consistent, or if there is an explicit 
>> reason. I suspect maybe because of the limited real estate in the 
>> resource tree?
>>     
>
> I think it was just because icons looked nicer, but buttons with text
> you understand at a glance. One problem with buttons is that they use
> lots of vertical space, that I perceive as a problem.
>   
It shouldn't be a problem to reduce the padding on the buttons or just 
make them simple (borderless) links.  Best of both worlds?
>   
>> * line between data and publishing seems blurred
>>
>> If you look at the ResourceConfigurationPage, the data tab seems to have 
>> content that i would think belongs on the publishing side of the fence. 
>> Things like title,keywords,abstract, and published bounding box all 
>> belong on the layer that is published, not the native resource. I cant 
>> remember if we came up with this at the sprint, i apologize for being 
>> out of the loop for so long.
>>     
>
> I don't remember exactly me neither. I kind of remember something along
> these lines: provide some basic publishing infos in the resource as
> well, and have them play the role of the default for the layers,  and
> also be _the_ values for the "default" map, the one that you don't have
> to manually configure and that shows everything by default (to avoid
> adding extra steps that weren't there in the old interface, for the
> simple case where just one map is sufficient).
>
> Having title/keywords/abstract in a separate section is ok to me,
> I'm a little disturbed by the idea of having the wgs84 bbox away
> from the native one, since they do pretty much depend on each other.
>   
The ResourceConfigurationPage is divided up based on where settings are 
stored in the catalog API.  Everything that comes from a ResourceInfo is 
on the Data side, everything that comes from a LayerInfo is on the 
publishing side.

The Publishing tab on a  ResourceConfigurationPage should contain all 
the default settings for Layers based on that resource.

-David Winslow

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