On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Gediminas Paulauskas <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/6/20 Alan Elkner <[email protected]>: >> Hey Guys, >> >> I got the modal dialog to work for person preferences > > I see you together resolved all the issues with preferences dialog... > > However, I still do not understand *why* preferences is a modal > dialog. The options are not related to anything seen on person page, > it is no problem to go to a normal page and return with Save/Cancel > buttons. All other links in the sidebar open a page except this one.
Arguably it is a little gratuitous. I don't see the placement of a link as being particularly important in terms of whether or not it opens a modal. I just don't see that as a standard convention either way, but maybe I'm missing some of the grammar. Basically, I see just a few simple cases for jquery dialogs: 1) Small, simple forms. This is mostly a matter of focus. I think it is preferable to gray (blue currently...) out the rest of the interface and focus the user on a form that otherwise is much smaller than the page as a whole. 2) Navigational hack. Basically, if you don't leave the page, you don't have to figure out how to get back to it, which, as we know, is sometimes a problem in SchoolTool. 3) Confirmations. Not that we're going to have many of them. 4) Non-modal informative pop-ups. We're really not doing these right now, but one example would be the gradebook. If you click on a person's name you don't necessarily want to leave the gradebook entirely, so a pop-up version of the student info would be nice. I'm probably forgetting something. > Moreover, the two preferences are both for the calendar. They should > be moved there. With a new option for default view > (daily/weekly/monthly), please :) Yes, we should do this when we get to calendars. Thanks Gediminas. --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
