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| Summary: | icon clutter in nav | ||||||
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| Product: | [ECD] Orion | Reporter: | Susan McCourt <susan> | ||||
| Component: | Client | Assignee: | Susan McCourt <susan> | ||||
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | antonm, ken_walker, mamacdon | ||||
| Version: | 0.3 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | 0.4 M2 | ||||||
| Hardware: | PC | ||||||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||||||
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Description
Susan McCourt
Created attachment 208206 [details]
screenshot of hacked workspace
here is what I'm running in my workspace:
- no tree
- favorites moved to menu
- gear menu instead of dropdown arrow
- gear menu moved to right of filename.
Comments?
Of course the checkbox icon needs to be better, and in tree mode we need a good looking twistie.
Anton mentioned getting rid of the header and I think that's a great idea. We had it so that one would know there were "Actions" hidden in that hover column. Now that the actions aren't hover-triggered, we don't need it. re: header...it is a convenient place to click for "sort by" but I wonder if that metaphor is used on the web. I find the icons we currently show for image files looks cluttered. If the images happen to be icons it looks fine, but if they are large images you just see this tiny blob that doesn't tell you much. I was wondering if it could instead show a larger image thumbnail on hover or something (yes this doesn't work on a touch screen). I released some changes (but I'm not done yet) that do the following: - we style the checkboxes to be less heavyweight (I will have the graphic artists do real ones, this is just my quickie, but it's already better) - the twisties are slightly larger to make them easier to hit - the arrow menu is styled to use the gear menu and the hover styling cleaned up a bit (gear icon will be made nicer by graphic artists) - the gear menu is moved to the right of the name in the navigator (no dedicated actions column) - removed folder icon (since the twistie lets you know it's a folder) - replaced the "yellow stylized" file icon with the standard eclipse file icon. This is really in preparation for bug 366265 where we hope to have different icons for different content types - removed header - I will play with menu position relative to the gear in bug 366447 Would like feedback... there is a "twistie/column" dance that happens when you open a folder. I'll figure that one out. We also need more space around the twistie. In the "open" position it butts up against the file name (In reply to comment #6) > there is a "twistie/column" dance that happens when you open a folder. I'll > figure that one out. We also need more space around the twistie. In the > "open" position it butts up against the file name fixed these, and added some margin around the left side of checkbox. Also shrunk the gear icon a bit. had a quick review with Linda. Replaced the gear icon with a "menu" icon that is more the color of the links so that it blends better. We also got rid of the opacity hover effect. I have requests in for more stylized checkboxes and twisties in bug 364399. So I'm going to close this bug and folks can open new bugs if they want to play further with the nav look. |