[Xerte-dev] Re: Possible icons in Workspace

Tue Oct 29 08:01:14 GMT 2013

Hi

I do see your point Ron, which is why i sent the screenshot ( was also thinking of an information bubble on hover)... But have always found it hard to quickly identify the right LO - that was initially the incentive to add the parent template icons.

Its very easy to leave the functionality in but turned off for now until after v2.1 release until written decide what would be best or possibly make it configurable.

Pat and Julian had initially talked of 'stacked' icons but its going to be relatively hard to get any useful info onto a 16x16 icon...

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

Hi John,

The full looks OK to me. And in my opinion, people are getting used very quickly on those icons and couldn't believe they ever could work without them.
Even changing/editing by clicking the icon would be clear I think.

In this case, if the names are long, you get a horizontal scroll bar, so that would be ok too.

I'll ask some users.

Tom

Ron Mitchell schreef op 29-10-2013 7:46:

Hi John
Looks good and I can see it would be useful for existing users with a number of projects etc but as you say could quickly become cluttered and I think possibly confusing for new users in particular.

I wondered about a checkbox/toggle which is off and not showing the icons by default? (see attached)

Then I wondered if instead of Show properties that should say Check properties or Quick properties.

Then I wondered if the icons would be shortcuts to that section of the properties panel e.g. a bit like Moodle edit icons

I wondered if it could be a possible problem where long project names are used or different languages like Tom's recent margin resize for Dutch

Then I wondered how Julian is likely to respond and whether this is this getting a bit removed from the FWS principal ;-)

HTH
Ron

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Possible icons in Workspace

Hi all,

So from my conversation with Pat, I have taken a look at the feasibility of adding icons to Workspace to show-at-a-glance certain statuses:

  Private/Public
  Flash vs Javascript
  RSS syndicated
  Shared with a collaborator
  (there may be others we can do that i'm not aware of)

I have rewritten the SQL query for Workspace to gather the required data and implemented the icons but as you can imagine Workspace soon gets cluttered (see image XOT_Icons_All). I have also been playing with the idea of only showing the images for the row that is selected (XOT_Icons_Selected) - but then I know you can select more than 1 row so not sure how to handle that...

What do you think?  I'm looking for ideas...

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