[Xerte-dev] Re: Workspace Layout

Thu Jul 16 15:56:48 BST 2015

Yeah remember it's got to work and look good in portrait view on a tablet!

Those buttons were moved to the top bar for that reason I think.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 16 July 2015 15:47
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Workspace Layout

This is better:

But this is what happens when it shrinks, which is not so good:

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 16 July 2015 15:42
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Workspace Layout

Yeah, like the mockup. Perhaps add the orange buttons for new folder,
properties, etc to the header of the projects panel. I think that would be
better as it groups the controls with the things they affect.

I'm not sure about the drop downs for links to resources. Maybe just lose
resources. But the feedback form is useful, we do get comments submitted
that way from time to time.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 16 July 2015 15:38
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Workspace Layout

Not wedded to the search box being at the top.

Although I wondered about the How to, feedback and site links etc being in
an orange menu to the right of the Sort menu and then leaving space for a
centered logo panel in the footer. 

Shouldn't the heading you've added by My Projects and left aligned?

Agree the middle panel should be wider by default and the left panel
narrower to accommodate that.

Something like this mock up?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 16 July 2015 14:54
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Workspace Layout

I was thinking it makes sense to have similar things in proximity. Both the
search and the sort are to do with the workspace items, it makes sense to me
to put these controls together.

Also this is a consistency thing: some tabs have titles, some don't. Either
let's give them all titles, or let's lose the big header on the tabs
altogether maybe: if it's not serving any purpose, why use the space? Also
with this, the headers create a division / barrier between the projects and
the controls to edit / properties etc. Previously these controls were much
more clearly associated with the list of projects in the workspace. Could we
put those buttons in the header perhaps? It does make sense that they are
more closely associated with the project list, as the projects are the
things they control.

By default the project details tab, the central one, doesn't look very nice
as it's very narrow.

This is what we have now, which I like a lot: it's clean / FWS etc.

And this is what we have in x3 which looks nice, but could still do with a
few tweaks to make it really lovely:

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 16 July 2015 14:44
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Workspace Layout

I would leave the search box where it is but make it less wide and put the
title to the left. It seems more inuititive to have the search at the top
rather than the bottom.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 16 July 2015 14:31
To: For Xerte technical developers (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Workspace Layout

What do you think of the idea of moving the search box down next to the
'Sort your files' drop down, and then we can give all three tabs titles:

Your Projects, Project Details, Project Templates

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