An alternate suggestion is to preview the layer group legend graphic on this page, then it will be a little more obvious what order the result is in? While it won't necessarily be intuitive - I still like Justin's idea of reversing the displayed order.
Jody Garnett On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > The problem with the silk forward and back buttons is that they don't link > the forward/back concept to position on the list. That's why I exaggerated > the vertical displacement of the overlapping pages and sloped the arrow at > an angle. Switching to the existing forward and back buttons instead of up > and down would help people make the right choice in terms of moving a > particular layer, but it wouldn't make it any more obvious how the order of > the list related to the visual overlapping. In fact the silk icons go the > wrong way with the forward shape higher than the rear shape. > > Maybe if the blank spots for the up/forward button on the first row and > down/backward button labels "front" and "back" instead of a blank space > that would get the point across. Or maybe desaturated versions of the > front and back buttons to indicate both that it can't go further and why. > Special versions of the silk forward/back buttons that have the forward > shape lower might be a good idea too. > > > On 27 March 2014 09:07, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Andrea Aime < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I like the idea, but we'd need a designer to make silk like icons with >>> the same concept >>> (full set here >>> http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/previews/index_abc.png) >>> >> >> Uh, unless we use "shape_move_forward" and "shape_move_backwards", not >> sure that will be clear for users though >> >> Cheers >> Andrea >> >> >> -- >> == >> Meet us at GEO Business 2014! in London! Visit http://goo.gl/fES3aK >> for more information. >> == >> >> Ing. Andrea Aime >> @geowolf >> Technical Lead >> >> GeoSolutions S.A.S. >> Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 >> 55054 Massarosa (LU) >> Italy >> phone: +39 0584 962313 >> fax: +39 0584 1660272 >> mob: +39 339 8844549 >> >> http://www.geo-solutions.it >> http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> > > > > -- > > Kevin Smith > > Junior Software Engineer | Boundless > > [email protected] > > +1-778-785-7459 > > @boundlessgeo <https://twitter.com/boundlessgeo> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > >
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