The improvements sound like a good idea to me. But one thing I would like to see is that the Map Preview page not be the only entry point to the preview functionality, but that this functionality be available from the layer page itself.
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 > - show only 3 previews directly: openlayers, kml, gml > limited to 50 features > - 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 > ... > > 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. > > Opinions? > Cheers > Andrea > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
