Thank you Rüdiger for the preview. I know the discussion about changes to the UI is ongoing, but would you be willing to transfer the sketches to JIRA sooner rather than later so people have a chance to discuss/comment them there? I find the textual reference via the mailing list a bit difficult to digest. I don't expect you to include any comment into your actual implementation, but getting feedback in JIRA would probably benefit the overhaul you have in mind overall.
O >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: [email protected] [mailto:matterhorn- >[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Christopher Brooks >Gesendet: Montag, 5. März 2012 20:18 >An: Opencast Matterhorn >Cc: Lucas Köhler >Betreff: Re: [Opencast Matterhorn] Changed for Engage UI for 1.4+ #proposal > >Hi, > >> > 3. Implement A B C D E F G... for recordings list >> > >> > Don't like it much as it clutters things up. Prefer that people >> > just search. >> I'd like to answer 2. & 3. together: Just imagine that A B C... would >> be 15/01/12 22/01/12 29/01/12 instead if you sorted the recordings by >> date. The scale would be adopted to the available space and the time >> you are running your Matterhorn server already. Additional we might >> add a date-picker here too. This would simply replace the paging by >> something more meaningfull. I can never remember in our current >> installation if the recordings from last september are on page 21 or >> 35. If you jumped to last december you can scroll up and down and the >> continuous scrolling will automatically reload the new data. > >I'd be open to this method I think. > >> And navigation by searching just works if you know what you are >> searching for. The navigation with the letters works better for >> browsing through the content. > >Right, what I really want is "temporal browsing", and our current UI supports >that >"kind of", and I find myself doing it lots so I wouldn't like to lose it. > >> > Outside of the scope of what you are providing, but this would allow >> > us to both have a consistent and cohesive delivered project yet >> > limit the amount of custom coding that needs to be done to make the >> > UI customized. >> It's outside scope for us, but feel free to contribute this. And if we >> start it here we probably should incorporate such a templating >> anywhere in the system. > >I think so too. We're pretty focused for the next six months on analytics >issues, but >hopefully after that there will be some opportunity to contribute to the >general UIs. > >> This is not a mockup for the embed-player. We would not touch it and >> keep it as it is currently. > >Does the mock up change the underlying player at all (SWF)? > >> currently no sorting for episodes in the rest interfaces) and the top >> information menu will make it into 1.4. I don't know how far we will >> get with the accordeon below the player. And we will keep the tools >> area on the left for 1.5, so there should be enough time to test this >> concept. > >Great. In principle I'm on board with this, specifics to be discussed after >they go in. > >> > - If you have a deployed prototype, I can see about getting some >> > usability testing done here, maybe Judy can as well? We could at >> > least do some less formal usability testing (think aloud, etc.). >> We have not prototype we would like to discuss this first, before we >> would spent our time on this. > >I'm fine with just testing a certain rev number too, from a branch or wherever >it is >being developed. > >> system. The colors we introduced are variations of the already used >> colors. In our point of view these colors hamonize quite well and they >> are not as saturated as the red, orange, blue-green and black that we >> currently use to make the controls and the matterhorn appearance more >> decent and let the content be more in the focus. > >I've got some light colour blindness and really don't care much about colours, >but I >just want to make sure things are as harmonious as possible (and with our >website). >I like the idea of coming up with some CSS files to skin things, and we can >always >just go back to the current ones if we can't find agreement... > >Chris >-- >Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc >ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan > >Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 >Phone: 1.306.966.1442 >Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory > Department of Computer Science > University of Saskatchewan > 176 Thorvaldson Building > 110 Science Place > Saskatoon, SK > S7N 5C9 >_______________________________________________ >Matterhorn mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > >To unsubscribe please email >[email protected] >_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
