EJX GUI proposal, was Re: [jBoss-Dev] EJX GUI: jboss.xml ANDejb-jar.xml?

[Justin Forder]

Rickard �berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Rickard �berg wrote:
>> Justin Forder wrote:
>> > Moving the tabs to subnodes of the bean (your suggestion) would be good.
>> > There would be a possibility of using subnodes for categories, each
>> > having up to three tabs, but I don't think it applies to this example.
>> 
>> +1. Very good idea.
>
>I have made a rough prototype of what this could look like. A screenshot
>can be found at:
>http://dreambean.com/download/rickard/newejx.gif
>
>As you can see, the entity has the categories of subnodes as subnodes,
>and each of these categories have the entries as leaves.
>
>This approach can take many more categories than the tabbed variant
>(currently in use).
>

Looks good. 

You need different icons for the subnodes: do you have a graphic
designer on call? 

To me, icon design seems the most specialised and difficult area of UI
design. There is one book on the subject ("The Icon Book") and I think
there is advice in the Java UI guidelines book, but this is the one area
of UI design that I *know* I would be hopeless at.
-- 
Justin Forder