Thanks for the update Chris. Let's push for an initial 2.0.x release by
the end of this week, so we can get something live that people can poke
at. More thoughts on specifics inline.
Christopher Patterson wrote:
Hey everybody-
My name's Chris Patterson, and I've been working recently on the
GeoServer 2 interface.
Thought it might be good to check in and send along my $.02 on where
we stand regarding UI stuff right now:
==Sidebar
* needs reorganization
* needs a listing (with at-a-glance status bars) for all the currently
active services
* there was some conversation in IRC about bringing the [Persist]
[Revert] buttons back into the sidebar, so they'd be always accessible
(rather than on the server admin screen, where they are now).
This all sounds good.
==Data Manager
* Needs a lot of attention. Individual pages need to be converted to
use the same markup conventions as the rest of the UI, and may need to
be reordered / reorganized to be easier to use.
* We're using a tree view on the main data manager page (and have a
fair amount of work invested in it). I'm not convinced this is the
best approach for displaying this data, as I don't think we'll ever be
nested more than two layers deep. This may be a moot point, given the
amount of time invested in the tree view and our time constraints -
but I'd love to get a better solution if we end up with time to do it.
I think it'd be great to hear suggestions on a better solution, but I
think at this point we all felt good about the original design, and
we've put a good bit of work in to it and time is limited.
==Demo pages
* Needs some attention to avoid the link-overload effect of listing
every single format for every item.
==Avoiding overwrite collisions
* David and I have chatted about various ways to help users avoid
overwriting each other's changes. The last time we'd talked, the
options (in descending order of preference) were:
** Since wicket keeps track of what page each user is on, display
messaging to the effect of "Hey! So-and-so is already on this page"
when accessing a page that's already in use.
** Store the configuration time with the session data, and display
messaging if the configuration is updated by another user
** Display the relevant configuration update time on pages which need it
I'd put this at a pretty low priority for now. It's an admin
application, generally will be used by only a couple users, and probably
not at the same time. We should agree on a design that's easy to
implement, but hold off on actually implementing it.
==Errata
* Pagination will probably be needed on all pages which may display
sufficiently-long result sets
* All result sets should be sorted by a sensible column. Time pending,
adding client-side sorting by other columns might be nice (although it
could be confusing in conjunction with pagination [users could think
that they were looking at a different set of results])
* Adding animation and more AJAX-y effects as appropriate are all time-
permitting at this point
Yeah, these are all 'nice to have', but I don't even know if I'd put
them as required for 2.0 release. Let's make jira issues for them
though to track.
C
Chris
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