Re: [LogiLogi-list] Some layout ideas

> Hi all,
> 
> I've spent some time today to get further in some ideas I had about
> the layout and design of logilogi...
> 
> This is a work in progress so I start exposing at what I'm working now
> and ideas and critics are very well come.

Ok, fasten your seatbelts :)

> I've added a page [1] about it at the wiki with 2 png images. I'm
> willing to share the svg, it's 400kb and I'm not sure if to add it to
> the svn as another file or upgrade the current svg (which is the
> replica of the current layout)... I don't think it's good to add heavy
> files to the svn. I'll probably upload it to the wiki.

I think it's fine if you add it to the svn. Under a different name
than the current, like ProposalA.svg, as probably when we come to the
UI we will be copying and pasting between them & make new versions,
etc...

The size is not really an issue I think as most of us are on broadband
anyway, aren't we ?

About your proposal: First of all, I don't think we will be able to
overhaul the UI just before the conferences anymore, as there still
enough to fix...

Secondly, I really do like some aspects of the proposal you made, but
also dislike some parts of it. Also I have some questions.

The questions:

On what kind of monitor are you and Miguel (& others) ?
I am using a dual-monitor setup of 2 cheap-ass TFT's @ 1280x1024, with
irremovable color-differences even between them...

While the colors look faded on one, there is surely enough space to
see the Logi & panels on both of them (On my EEE-pc with 1024x600 on
the other hand all one sees are the top-bars & the title)

Good in the proposal are, I tink:
- the rounded look of the requested/received bars
- the help-icons
- the user-picture in my_logilogi

Bad/problematic are, I think:
- the search & requested/received bars are too short, should at least
  span till my_logilogi
- the overall crammed look of it, too little space between (@ my size
  monitor)
- the panels are too close together & I think better when panels
- the little calendar and the by - author name look good, and are
  missing here... (author name is there, but in a panel)

Ambiguous are:
- the toolbar is missing ?
- where are the tabs and network-bar ?

Maybe more later, but this is it for now, as I got to get back to the
presentations-preparations... Also I will try to fix your account now...

Wybo

> Later all.
> 
> [1] http://logilogi.wiki.sourceforge.net/UI_V2.1
> -- 
> Bruno