"(2) Decluttered should be the default." I agree clutter should not be default? I would drop that term altogether.
On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > In the latest code on https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline and > at https://sqlite.org/srcx/timeline has a "Declutter" button on the > sub-menu bar to simplify the screen. In the simplified timeline, > there is a "Details" button to get all the details back again. > > I'm not done with this interface improvement push. Here are my > short-term plans: > > (1) Right now, pressing "Declutter" or "Details" is a server > round-trip. I think it would better to handle this using javascript. > > (2) Decluttered should be the default. Currently Details is the > default. I spent a lot of time experimenting last night, and what I > found myself doing every time I encountered a timeline was immediately > pressing the "Declutter" button to get a high-level overview of the > graph, then clicking on "Details" if I wanted to see more. From that > experience, I think coming up in Decluttered mode would be a much > better approach. > > (3) Details/Declutter for the entire graph is good and should be kept. > But it would be even better to be able to see the details of > individual timeline entries. I'm thinking that timelines come up in > decluttered mode (showing only the check-in comment for each entry) > but with ellipses or some other small icon at the end of each comment > that you can click on to expand the details. > > You can help! Send me your ideas of what you think timelines should > look like. Even better: send me mock-ups. Static HTML pages that > you have hand-edited will be fine - just be sure to include the CSS, > or better, put all the CSS in-line on your hand-edited mockup. > > You can also keep experimenting with the code I have on-line and send > me your complaints and suggestions for improvement. > > Web developers - help me with this: For item (3) above, how can I > make the ellipsis or icon to "show more detail" configurable using > CSS? What's the best way to handle that so that people can customize > the look for various skins? > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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