Thanks for the feedback Andrea.
So what if we move Layer Preview back outside (and below), but put it at the
top of the "others" list... so that for instance it shows up ahead of demos?
Or is the very bottom of the list preferred?
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Recently I sat down with Rollie, our designer, and he had some thoughts
> > about how to improve the organization of the sidebar in the web ui. I
> have
> > attached to two sets of images with the before and after pictures. Let us
> > know what you think.
> > Logged in before/after:
> > https://skitch.com/jdeolive/rpai8/geoserver-welcome-3
> > https://skitch.com/jdeolive/rpaiq/geoserver-welcome-4-1
> > Logged out before/after:
> > https://skitch.com/jdeolive/rpai1/geoserver-welcome-2
> > https://skitch.com/jdeolive/rpaiw/geoserver-welcome
> > Here is a summary of the changes and the rationale behind them.
> > * Separate settings category
> > The top "Server" has become a bit crowded. Since half of the items are
> > "settings" oriented it makes sense to have a separate category for them.
> > * Promote layer preview
> > The layer preview is probably the most used part of the entire ui. And as
> > its sits today it does not come across as very prominent. So the idea is
> to
> > promote it into the data section.
> > * Ordering in terms of most frequently used
> > As you noticed in the screen shots the settings category is moved to the
> > bottom. The idea here is to order the categories in such as way so that
> the
> > "configuration" based ones order from top to bottom by most frequently
> used.
> > Data being the most used, followed by services, followed by settings. The
> > last two are a toss up I guess but that is the general idea.
> > Thoughts and feedback welcome.
>
> Generally speaking it works for me, all besides the preview link.
> It may not be prominent but the current position is one of those you
> barely have
> to look for since it's just "bottom left". I guess for those on
> notebooks with smaller
> screens it may end up out of the screen?
>
> I certainly would have to make more effort to find it in the new position
> that
> in the current one.
> Maybe we could retain the quick to look up position if the layer
> preview was placed
> at the top of the "server" category (top left)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
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