[opencms-dev] consistent user interface for OpenCms

[Michael Moossen]

Hi, Joe and Kai!

> UI suggestion: when an icon or menu item is unavailable ("grayed
> out"), give an explanation as to why it is not available ("locked",
> "insufficient privilege", etc).
  Normally you get such a description on the left in the help box.

> > For example OpenCms uses 3 different "delete"-icons. Two different even in
> > one dialog (Account management --> User Management).
  Our approach is to 'try' that in such cases where the same functionally is
offered in the same list as 'SingleAction' and as 'MultiAction', is to use the
same icon in different colors.

Kai: when you say 'we', what do you really mean?

-- 
Regards
Michael Moossen

Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com


Quoting Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet at gmail.com>:

> UI suggestion: when an icon or menu item is unavailable ("grayed
> out"), give an explanation as to why it is not available ("locked",
> "insufficient privilege", etc).
> 
> This could be by way of a "title" tag in the icon image which is
> implemeted as a "tool tip" in many browsers.
> 
> Joe.
> 
> On 11/30/05, Kai Schliemann <k.schliemann at comundus.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi list, hi Alkacon,
> >
> > as we work with OpenCms for quite a while now, we experienced every now
> and
> > then slightly inconsistencies in the user interface.
> > For example OpenCms uses 3 different "delete"-icons. Two different even in
> > one dialog (Account management --> User Management). The same icon in two
> > colours.
> > The third one is in the database export dialog.
> >
> > OpenCms's usability improved a lot in version 6 but could be better.
> > Therefore we are right now working on a concept for a consistent
> > look-and-feel of OpenCms.
> >
> > We would like to contribute this concept and of course the implementation
> to
> > the community, respectively to the OpenCms core.
> >
> > We invite everybody to help us, to improve OpenCms in this matter and to
> > send suggestions for improvement to the mailing list.
> >
> > If you guys from Alkacon (or anyone else) already have plans to work on
> this
> > matter we are willingly ready to help. Just let us know. If not, please
> tell
> > us, how we can contribute.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > Kai Schliemann
> >
> >
> >
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