Polltrack

[Michael Allan]

Thomas von der Elbe said:
> It is better now, I think, but I still find it to small and hard to
> see, if it is selected. What is inconsistent about making it the
> same size as the orange "+"?

It's the same size, just a different shape (more starlike).  You can
see the details of the iconography in the SVG file, e.g. in Inkscape:
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/a/web/context/stage/poll/

I added some extra "rays".  Still, it might not be enough.
http://zelea.com/w/G/p/sandbox

  (hit refresh)

> Now it has two backgrounds, one moving down (which is good) and the
> other staying on top, which I think before was not the case and I
> liked it more before, I think.

I agree, it was better before (it was grey before).  Fixed:
http://zelea.com/w/User:Mike-ZeleaCom/Tor/p/grfin

> Well, if it was Chrismas and I could have wishs, then:
> 
> I'd like the magnifiing glass to disappear on the right side of the
> poll-track, where there are no more polls atm.

That's a cheap Christmas gift, I can afford that one. :-)
http://zelea.com/var/db/repo/votorola/rev/9cf01f27cb1e

> And in vote-space, if I expand the tree a lot and have to scroll the
> screen to the left and right, I'd like all the tracks stay stable at
> the top and not move.

We could probably do it by gluing it to the screen, like in the
drafts.  Normally I wouldn't put much effort into the old votespace,
since we'll have the new curtain version at some point.  But it's
probably only 1 day.

> Then I think, it would be good, if I mouse over the vote-track, to
> have the same behaviour as if I mouse over the poll-track, i.e. a
> little window with the name of the voter attached to the
> mouse-pointer. In this track probably better below the
> mouse-pointer. You suggested this imo, when we spoke last. The only
> disadvantage here is on a position page, if I scroll down, this
> window would cover some of the position, but I think it is worth the
> consistency in usage.

I agree.  This is maybe 2 days.

> But this is all low priority I guess.

I feel it's a higher priority now to expose the software more.  So the
home page, the mailing list, and (if others agree) Metagov pages.
That's maybe 2 weeks.  I'm hoping we'll get more developers at some
point.  It's always a long shot, but the earlier we try the better.

But I'll do these two improvements (above) whenever you say.

> Here in votespace there is some bug; if you mouse over the
> vote-track, the users highlighted in the tree are wrong ones:
> http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?p=G!p!sandbox&u=Alex.rollin-GmailCom

Whoops, fixed.

Mike


Thomas von der Elbe said:
> 
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 7:12, Michael Allan wrote:
> > We were mooting an idea tonight (Conseo and I). Imagine if Metagov 
> > became a kind of staging ground for different software. The user would 
> > choose the brand and it would run for him/her in the wiki, mailing 
> > list, and so forth. New users would get random software. What do you 
> > think? 
> 
> I like it. But what choice would the user have atm? I think Votorola is 
> the only software which integrates so easily with wikis etc, isn't it? 
> Ofc, we could offer other projects our collaboration (as we already do 
> all the time) in that, that they could use these tracks and connect them 
> to their software. Is this the plan? The tracks would then be actually 
> part of the OVN instead of Votorola and the different softwares behind 
> the tracks would have to exchange votes etc., right?
> 
> >> PS: and I find the "+"-symbol for the unspecified polls is tosmall,
> >> i.e.  hardly to recognizethat it is selected.
> > This gave me some trouble at first.  It's confusing and inconsistent
> > if it's too big and bright when you mouse over.  Eventually I realized
> > that it only needs brightening when it's selected and staged.
> 
> It is better now, I think, but I still find it to small and hard to see, 
> if it is selected. What is inconsistent about making it the same size as 
> the orange "+"?
> 
> >> One possible bug: once on a position page, if I scroll down, the
> >> vote-track stays on the screen. I believe, before it's background did
> >> also stay, now it's moving up, making the track harder to read. Do I
> >> remember right?
> > Whoops.  Fixed.
> 
> Now it has two backgrounds, one moving down (which is good) and the 
> other staying on top, which I think before was not the case and I liked 
> it more before, I think.
> 
> > I can do more if it's needed.
> 
> Well, if it was Chrismas and I could have wishs, then:
> 
> I'd like the magnifiing glass to disappear on the right side of the 
> poll-track, where there are no more polls atm.
> 
> And in vote-space, if I expand the tree a lot and have to scroll the 
> screen to the left and right, I'd like all the tracks stay stable at the 
> top and not move.
> 
> Then I think, it would be good, if I mouse over the vote-track, to have 
> the same behaviour as if I mouse over the poll-track, i.e. a little 
> window with the name of the voter attached to the mouse-pointer. In this 
> track probably better below the mouse-pointer. You suggested this imo, 
> when we spoke last. The only disadvantage here is on a position page, if 
> I scroll down, this window would cover some of the position, but I think 
> it is worth the consistency in usage.
> 
> But this is all low priority I guess.
> 
> Here in votespace there is some bug; if you mouse over the vote-track, 
> the users highlighted in the tree are wrong ones: 
> http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?p=G!p!sandbox&u=Alex.rollin-GmailCom
> 
> Thomas