+1 for double-click and open config dialog on processors. Seems most intuitive to a user.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Grande <[email protected]> wrote: > I just had the same idea today. Would like to have double-click open the > Properties pane of a processor, this is the majority of use cases. > > I am against making the action customizable, though. This is a case where > less is more for a UX and provides a consistent experience across all > deployments (just imaging if someone swapped start/stop and an operator > expected a Props screen. Oops!) > > Andrew > > From: Charlie Frasure <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:13 AM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Feature proposal: Streamline visual flow design > > Apologies, not sure how to properly respond to an old thread. (Maybe > that's the idea.) I was looking through the archives before posting some > usability comments about the UI and turned up a couple of threads in > September. > > If we did automatically open the configuration screen when a processor was > dropped on the canvas, a quick press of ESC seems to back out nicely. A > possible compromise for the processor configuration could be a double-click > to open behavior, as it seems this action is not currently assigned. > Better yet, a user-configurable double click action (start/stop, configure, > data provenance, etc) would be nice. > > The other enhancements mentioned would be great as well. > > > Rob Moran <[email protected]> Subject Re: [DISCUSS] Feature proposal: > Streamline visual flow design Date Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:09:44 GMT > > So far there seems to be a couple in agreement to leave the add processor > behavior as is. My use of *inconsistency* was referring the simple fact > that behavior is different. Add a processor - no dialog; draw a connection > - same type of dialog appears to take action. Perhaps we design a more > intuitive way to quickly “configure” a connection when drawn. It could be a > small in-place editor <http://ui-patterns.com/patterns/InplaceEditor> that > appears when the connection is drawn allowing a quick, localized > configuration to take place. > > >
