Hi Martin, I'm just in the process of what was meant to be a straight-forward 2.0->3.0 update for the builder index page in Launchpad.
You can see a before/after shot here: http://people.canonical.com/~michaeln/3-0-builder-mechanical/0-builder-index.png Although the first issue is specific to the builder-index page, the second one might be relevant to others who are doing 'mechanical' updates to templates. Issue 1: where to put the builder details ========================================= So the builder details/information section is not the type of info that should be in the 3-0 side-bar, but that presents a problem for this page, which most people use to find out one specific detail: the current status of the builder. You can see how I have tried to accommodate for this by including the details in the main content but on the side - I personally think it looks too crowded, and it *still* breaks the flow of Current status -> Current log tail. Any suggestions as to where the details could go? In this (exceptional) case - where the actual usage of the page is usually for one specific detail of the context object - the sidebar worked quite well in the past. Issue 2: A single global actions link in the side-bar? ====================================================== The second issue that I have is that (after some merging of templates) there is only one global action for this page - 'Change details'. So to avoid adding a sidebar with just one portlet (actions), itself containing just one link, I tried to put the action in context with the details - which I think works, but might go against the 3-0 principles? The other option would be to find some other content to fill the side-bar with (such as an 'event-list' of the last 10 builds as suggested by bigjools). This would work well on this specific page, but leaves me wondering, will we always be using main-side as long as the context is editable (ie. requires a 'Change details' link), or is it ok to include the link in the main section as is? Note: Christian Robottom Reis wrote in a previous thread: > is "links in the actions menu are all the links that manipulate > something that isn't intuitively identifiable on the page." The page > context is one such thing, since it is represented by the page itself. Thanks! -- Michael _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
