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#31 2005-08-17 02:59:55
- Mary
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Re: Txp Admin Facelift
an eye!
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#32 2005-08-17 05:57:51
- Mary
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Re: Txp Admin Facelift
I wrote: “an eye!”
That’s always the way: seems completely obvious now, but it wasn’t then. Try #4.
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#33 2005-08-17 07:42:13
- ian_ep
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Re: Txp Admin Facelift
Mary,
I have to say I still prefer the existing design.
Both the tabs and icons in your version are all but invisible on my screen. More contrast!
I also prefer text to icons on the write pane.
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Mary, if i may offer some suggestions, the side (text, html, preview) tabs are showing very little contrast on my screen. Especially on the off (not selected) tabs, the icons blend into the tabs, and the tabs merge into each other. I´d darken the outlines of both the tabs themseleves and the icons. perhaps separate the tabs a pixel or 2 vertically to better differentiate them?
I also agree it would be good to have differences between both sets of tabs, maybe just a size change would make a difference and show the hierarchy?
I really like where this is going, and would love to contribute. let meknow if i can lend a hand
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#35 2005-08-18 15:20:34
- andjules
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Re: Txp Admin Facelift
I’m tempted to tell ian_ep and kemie that their screens don’t have enough contrast… But Mary, as you know, what’s appropriately subtle on your (and apparently my) screen will always be too subtle somewhere else. I like the lower contrast (remember, the interface isn’t ‘the point’; what you are doing – writing – is ‘the point’) and I especially like the type/color treatment of tab and subtab in the last two versions.
my 2¢: elongate the vertical tabs so they have sloping sides much like the top horizontal tabs/subtabs. I’m concerned a beginner contributor won’t ‘get’ that they’re functional tabs.
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#36 2005-08-18 19:31:12
- igner
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well then, julian, you’d have to tell me as well :) You have to remember that Windows and the Mac OS use different default gamma values, and that can affect the way things display.
I agree with kemie, on my PowerBook display, the side tabs are too subtle. And I’m not so sure that excessive subtlety is called for in this case – the only reason I can identify the HTML icon is because I sorted out the other two, and knew what the three tabs are supposed to be. I can see my clients clicking the HTML tab, seeing all the code, and getting flummoxed.
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#37 2005-08-19 23:19:51
- Mary
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#38 2005-08-20 05:47:39
- lee
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I don’t really like the 3 mini tabs with images on, they are over designed compared with the simplicity of the overall design. They don’t even look like tabs. Also it’s the only place on the interface where you have to guess what somethings for. Dean’s tabs are better.
Last edited by lee (2005-08-20 05:49:50)
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Number 5 and 6 are very nice. It would also be nice, though, to have some kind of “quikpik” easy access functionality to get to your forms, pages, styles, and recent articles.
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#40 2005-08-20 19:31:07
- Mary
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Lee: how do you suggest we translate the original write page’s tabs? That was the whole point of the exercise.
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> Lee: how do you suggest we translate the original write page’s tabs? That was the whole point of the exercise.
How the heck should I know? If I had to guess, I’d say use straight text on horizontal tabs – perhaps right justified underneath the large input field on that screen.
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Multlingual text/html/preview graphics for the tabs wouldn’t be difficult to produce, and could be easily switched using the global LANG in a conditional.
Much as I respect the desire to come up with a simple solution, the windowsy pencil/tag/eyeball icons aren’t the sort of thing I’d want to appear in the interface.
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> Dean wrote:
> Multlingual text/html/preview graphics for the tabs wouldn’t be difficult to produce, and could be easily switched using the global LANG in a conditional.
Err… can you make the greek word προεπισκόπηση fit inside a tab?
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I’m quite happy with the 4.0 look, except for one thing: I’d like to get rid of the top right dropdown menu. It’s completely superfluous and it looks likes a bird dropped it there.
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#45 2005-08-22 01:03:24
- Mary
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I am already heading into difficulty with plugin extension tabs. I’d like to make them nice resizable creatures, but I’ve never been much good at that.
So Dean, where do we put them, the side tabs of the write page? They can’t stay vertical, so… ?
I already like working with this, so it’ll probably be what I’ll use regardless of what happens for anybody else. I just thought we should at least be discussing this.
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