[Xerte-dev] Re: A few tweaks to the Workspace interface

[Pat @ Pgogy]

I assume, in the glorious future we will have themes, and you can do what
you want display wise?




On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

>  I kinda hoped the redesign would be a full width scrolling overhaul… but
> there is a lot going on in Workspace so it probably wasn’t the right time…
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> If I ever get back to doing the editor then I think that the workspace
> will be rewritten in Angularjs too. Then all the logic will be removed from
> the layout and we can lay the screen out a lot better and have more control
> over the sorting (and I’d like to see filtering) of projects in the
> workspace…****
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> Regards,****
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> John Smith****
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> Learning Technologist****
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> School of Health & Life Sciences****
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> Glasgow Caledonian University****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* Friday, October 18, 2013 11:47 AM
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> *To:* 'For Xerte technical developers'
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: A few tweaks to the Workspace interface****
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> On the whol vertical scrolling thing - in light of recent discussions
> about the content of the pods etc do we need such a fixed 'view port' of
> the workspace and template areas? e.g. could the whole page just scroll to
> fit or at least be longer than it is now?****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 18 October 2013 11:40
> *To:* xerte at pgogywebstuff.com; For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: A few tweaks to the Workspace interface****
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> Yeah.. it was late and I did it and then realized rss was showing same as
> xerte and I had already taken screenshot etc etc… I’m sure there is a way
> to do it… just wasn’t at midnight!!****
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> Re3… if you have tones of templates wouldn’t they be one under the other?
> Hence the reason why I have left overflow-y:scroll set ;-)****
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> Regards,****
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> John Smith****
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> Learning Technologist****
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> School of Health & Life Sciences****
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Pat @ Pgogy
> *Sent:* Friday, October 18, 2013 10:50 AM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: A few tweaks to the Workspace interface****
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> or you know, use the module code :) Which is like, almost, built, to like,
> do this****
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> re 3 - what if I have a tonne of templates - which I do - is it overflow
> scroll?****
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:*
> ***
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> I'll take a look later to see if i can differentiate from database row...
> Otherwise only way is to parse xml which would slow the loading
> considerably...****
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>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
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> Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:****
>
> Because theya re both part of the Xerte templates. Site is the only
> separate template, so presumably that's why...****
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John****
>
> Sent: 18 October 2013 08:56
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk****
>
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: A few tweaks to the Workspace interface****
>
> The problem i saw last night is that the field i am using to identify the
> icon to use reports rss as xerte too so there must be some other field that
> identifies it as rss...
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
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>
> Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Do you think we should do icons for the toolkit and feed projects as well?
> The feed icon is obvious, not sure what we should use or the toolkits ones?
> ****
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 18 October 2013 08:32
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: A few tweaks to the Workspace interface
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> Nice! Cheers.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 17 October 2013 23:26
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] A few tweaks to the Workspace interface
> Importance: High
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> Hi all,
>
> I've just committed a few changes to the Workspace interface that I think
> makes it look/feel better but if you have any issues/concerns then please
> let me know...
>
>  1.
> Added 5px padding between icon and name of LO/Folder/Recycle bin  2.
> Made the Create template box slightly smaller to avoid the need for x
> scrolling  3.
> Hid the horizontal scrollbar in templates list  4.
> Added basic icon support to the Workspace for easier identification of the
> projects and templates
>
> Have been wanting to do that last one for ages - hope you like it... see
> attached screenshot if you don't have v2.1 setup but please test and report
> back when you can...
>
> Regards,
>
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