On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Christopher Patterson wrote:

> Consolidating feedback based on some discussion in #toppdzn :
>
> * Big +1 on having the MIME types in that dropdown be more human
> readable.
> * Rollie's been curating a set of GeoSilk icons for styler, which
> includes icons to indicate vector-based / rasterized output. It'd be
> nice to use these in the 'Type' column instead of the strings "Vector"
> and "Raster". We could include tooltip text to clarify for newer users
> via the "title" attribute.

The "GeoSilk" set, along with the canonical Silk set 
(http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ 
), are the ones used elsewhere throughout this new UI. You can find  
the most up-to-date version here: http://files.opengeo.org/geosilk/

> * Let's consolidate the "Workspace" and "Name" columns into Qualified
> names
> * Let's add "Title" as a column
> * Both Qualified name and Title should link to GeoSearch pages
> whenever those exist. Otherwise, let's leave the text unlinked.

I think we also talked about making sure that the filter/search  
scraped the abstract and keyword metadata if it doesn't already. As  
Cholmes said, our UI should gently push people towards best practices.

> I can turn these into a JIRA if that's best (I see that Mike created
> GEOS-2836 for the human-readable dropdown text), but wanted to bring
> these to the list for discussion first.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
>
>> Mike Pumphrey ha scritto:
>>> Thanks Andrea.  Screenshots are very helpful for those who aren't
>>> ready to build their own trunk.  :)
>>>
>>> Q: Are we going to replace the MIME types in that pull down list
>>> with more human-readable entries?  Or perhaps have the MIME types
>>> in parentheses (or as tooltips?)
>>
>> Mumble, I'm a little torn on that one. That drop down is kind of the
>> "advanced" thing of that dropdown. To make for human readable names
>> we'd have to extend the output formats classes to provide a straight
>> name, or try to use the mime as an entry into the i18n files (not  
>> sure
>> mime types are valid property names thought).
>> Not sure which path to go, but the issue might be deeper than just  
>> the
>> UI page code.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
>> -- 
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