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#37 2005-08-19 23:19:51
- Mary
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#38 2005-08-20 05:47:39
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Re: Txp Admin Facelift
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.
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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
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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
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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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I think the icons beside the textarea don’t match the style of the admin.
Lee: how do you suggest we translate the original write page’s tabs? That was the whole point of the exercise.
Why not have the tabs below the textarea, instead of beside? Then we can put the link names horizontally instead of vertically, and translations won’t be so much of a problem.
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I think we should stick to using text within the interface. After all, it’s an admin, and usability takes precedence over looks.
There should never be a situation where a designer has to use images instead of text for links.
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Hm, i liked the gray tabs much better, but contrast is good now.
I´d still puch for more difference between the 2 tab sets.
(im not on a mac, btw, i just seem to have lousy vision ;) )
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