Thanks for bringing this up, Andrea. Overall, I'm +1 (feedback below)
Rollie had pointed out that this page is currently hidden behind Demos in the UI. I'd love to move it to the sidebar (should all the links on the current demos page maybe be moved to the sidebar?). If we need to put it behind an extra page, I think we ought to try to come up with a better umbrella term than demos - it seems like they're actually focused on providing information about the currently-running geoserver instance than actual demos. On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > quick mail to propose a plan for a layer preview improvement on > trunk. > > Atm the preview looks like attached. Pretty much... ugly!!! > I would like to replace it with something different. > The ideas are: > - merge it with the usual filterable/sortable style we have > in the other tables, using the workspace and the layer > name as the columns that can be used for filtering > and sorting Big +1 from me on this. In fact, I was just suggesting this in the design channel. > > - show only 3 previews directly: openlayers, kml, gml > limited to 50 features I don't know what subset makes sense to show, but I agree this makes sense > > - show an extra dropdown with the full list of mime types, > when you click on it you get redirected to a preview > with the chosen type. It seems like a good idea, to me, > to include in the mix both wms and wfs 1.0 outputs, and > mark them accordingly, something like: > > (wms) application/atom+xml > (wms) application/pdf > (wms) application/rss+xml > ... > (wfs) gml2 > (wfs) csv > ... > Rather than prefixing each row with (wms) or (wfs), I'd suggest using <optgroup> tags to organize the options in that dropdown. (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_optgroup is a simple demo for folks who are wondering what that tag does). > As for having better looking names for the dropdown, we > may be able use the internationalization subsystem to > provide better looking labels starting from the mime types. > Or maybe we can just forget about that and fill the dropdown > with the mime types, it's supposed to be an advanced option > anyways. > > Also, we may want to have two drodowns, one for wms > extras, and one for wfs extras. The end result > would be a table with xx columns: > - workspace > - layer name > - ol preview link > - kml preview link > - gml2 preview link > - other wms formats dropdown > - other wfs formats dropdown > (layers page also has 7 columns) > > Maybe by clicking on the layer name one would get > to the layer description page that was made for > geosearch? Provided the page is available, that is. I think I'm +1 on this - where would the layer name link if there isn't a layer description page available? > > > Opinions? > Cheers > Andrea > > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > < > gspreview > .jpg > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
