(2) Poor external nav/orientation in votespace browser

[Thomas von der Elbe]

Wow, that sounds promising! I'm excited to see, how that comes out.

Thomas

Michael Allan schrieb:
> This appears to be problem #2:
> http://u.zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?u=Jim-GilliamCom&p=G!p!sandbox
>
> It's too difficult to navigate outside of the votespace browser,
> e.g. to position pages, and so forth.  This is what you guys are
> saying, and I agree.  It's hard even to *know* what all the navigation
> possibilities might be (missing information and poor visualizations).
> These are the basic problems, right?
>
> I'll do a full redesign proposal for this page.  (I think it's long
> overdue.)  The top part of the page (pollserver tabs, title , pollwiki
> icon-links) is roughly OK, and the internal navigation (horizontal
> tree, static URLs) is excellent IMHO; but the rest needs a complete
> overhaul.  A couple of things I can forsee:
>
>  a) We'll have a user info-panel.  Clicking on a node in the tree
>     (username) will fill the panel with details about that user,
>     including every link that could possibly be useful.  The panel
>     will be extensible, of course, so it'll be easy to add new
>     info-fields.
>
>  b) We'll be able to select a second username from anywhere in the
>     tree, for purposes of doing a diff (or whatever).
>
>  c) In-tree views and controls will be minimized.  All possible
>     controls (including 2nd selection) will be outside of the tree
>     (e.g. in the info-panel).
>
>     Some of the in-tree views may be modal (one at a time).  So the
>     tree could be painted/decorated according to various different
>     criteria, depending on what the user needed, at a given time.
>     (Examples?  Not sure yet... Thomas mentioned the boolean has/has
>     not for position drafts.)
>
>  d) We could aim for beauty, this time.  I can do proper mock-ups
>     before coding anything.  (It's worth it, right?  The votespace
>     browser is always going to be an important view.)
>
> I'll start working on a more detailed proposal,
>