Rollie, I love the cloud format. Some thought needs to go into how we can similarly ease the pain of having tons of feeds.
I know we've already committed to implementing some changes, and I don't mean to press that anything I say here should happen right now. Maybe once things stabilize. I'm just trying to raise interesting issues before I forget them and I'll consolidate whatever discussion comes out into real trac issues. To revisit my issues with Share button, how do we feel about expanding the share button on mouse over? It keeps clutter AND click count low. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Rolando Penate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > We have a first round of UI changes that Luke has committed to and we're > currently implementing. I think these changes are great and am pleased to > see them underway. That, however, doesn't mean they are perfect and we've > been throwing around some ideas for future iterations. > One of the ones that Luke asked us to post to the development list is one > for a filter cloud. It was an idea that I threw out in response to needing > a very compact summary view of the filters and feeds when presented with a > long list. Basically, you'd just have the filter names in a comma-separated > list, color-coded like in the article meta (blue for tags, yellow for > authors, orange for feeds, etc), maybe sized based on how they are weighted. > It basically assumes our audience is somewhat as comfortable with stuff like > that as delicious users are. > > I gave it a very quick pass for filters: > http://img.skitch.com/20080814-nu3jqymq45dreb2rrtmxes5tbc.png > > Compare it with: > http://img.skitch.com/20080813-n799g3kmkpsrbdhcp9t27qg3au.png > > Just imagine that inside of 'Hide/Show' button there is a 'List/Cloud' > button. > > —R > > On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: > > Seems time is ripe (maybe over ripe) for ui discussion, so I'll drop in two > more. > > Group feeds into folders. > For me the added value of melkjug boils down to the ability to subscribe to > more sources without more headache. We need a design that allows 100+ feeds > without getting messy. > > Maybe the side bar should scroll separately from the article list? Access > to your filters from anywhere on the page sounds like a good idea. > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Randall Leeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I have a few UI notes I thought I'd drop in here: >> >> 1) I know I thought it was slick at first, but I'm reversing my opinion. >> Is there a reason the green "share" button isn't expanded by default? Do we >> really need it collapsed if we only have a few options for how to share it? >> I suppose it makes sharing via e-mail (better for us because we get to stick >> in a melkjug.org link) more prominent, but it's a usability problem >> possibly to always have to click twice. >> >> 2) Can we pop up the delicious share link on the page rather than opening >> a new page? If there were some way to have it automatically disappear after >> the user submits the form that would be ultra hot. Not sure this is >> possible. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Luke Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> >>> FYI, >>> >>> The trunk of the melkjug package is undergoing heavy changes as we rework >>> the UI. Please expect some large fluctuations in the look and functionality >>> of things for the time being. I recommend using an earlier release or tag >>> for the time being if you need a stable UI. >>> >>> - Luke >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Archive: >>> http://www.openplans.org/projects/melkjug/lists/melkjug-development-list/archive/2008/08/1218735746419 >>> To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please contact >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions. >>> >>> >> > >
