Ulli, thats a really good idea!!!! I think the sam would actually be helpful for triggers, these are getting more and more too… Domi
On 13.05.2012, at 19:18, Ulli Hafner wrote: > While I think that reordering and showing only active plug-ins is a great > improvement I think the selection of the action still is not optimal. Using a > List Box Button to select publishers is not very user friendly (at least if > you have more than 10 available). Especially when you need to scroll to the > bottom of the list it needs quite a lot of time until you reach the last > element of the list (maybe the scrolling can be improved anyway). The same > pattern is currently used for the portlets selection in the dashboard view > and I think it could be also improved by using a more intuitive selection > "view". E.g., something in the style of the Jira dashboard selection. In Jira > when you press the add button on the dashboard then a selection dialog is > opened where you see small previews of the available portlets. This would > also make sense for the publishers: here we can show a small icon, a > description, etc. Maybe we can also groupd by category... > > Ulli > > > On 05/11/2012 12:40 PM, Peter Franzén wrote >> >> Hi, >> >> A great improvement, but some Plugins are not added when I select them. >> I tried some and works perfectly, but I can not add: >> Coverity >> Editable Email Notification >> >> Just nothing happens when I select them >> >> /Peter >> >> >> Den torsdagen den 19:e april 2012 kl. 18:01:26 UTC+2 skrev Kohsuke Kawaguchi: >> Following up the conversation from JUC Paris, I pushed the "publisher" >> branch to the repository that changes the publisher configuration UI. >> I'd like to get feedback on whether people think this is a good idea >> or a bad idea. >> Currently, the "post-build action" of the project configuration page >> lists one checkbox per one publisher. This has a couple of problems: >> >> - when you have a large number of plugins, as many large instances >> inevitably do, they occupy a large real estate in the configuration >> screen. >> >> - you cannot reorder them >> >> In the branch, instead of a big list of checkboxes, you get a >> drop-down menu button just like the main "build' section. And then >> you'll be adding publishers by clicking them. >> >> - once you add a publisher of a certain kind, it gets grayed out and >> prevents you from adding 2nd (and if you actually click the grayed out >> item, you jump to the corresponding part of the page.) (this >> restriction of one instance per one publisher might be something worth >> removing in the future?) >> >> - new items are inserted into their preferred position, instead of >> getting added to the bottom, so that users normally wouldn't have to >> think about the proper ordering among them (you generally want the >> data collection tasks to come before the notification tasks.) >> >> - a few animations to go with it. >> >> Looking forward to hearing back. >> >> -- >> Kohsuke Kawaguchi > >
