Polltrack

[Thomas von der Elbe]

On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 6:50, Michael Allan wrote:
> It's the same size, just a different shape (more starlike). [...] I 
> added some extra "rays". Still, it might not be enough.

It is visible enough now, I feel, but for my taste, the starlike shape 
is to complicated somehow. All other symbols are very very basic. Isn't 
there another realy basic symbol we could use? (Somehow I can't believe 
that I'm asking this. It's my perfectionism driving me. Please be aware 
of that!) But in case you want to stay with the starlike symbol, please 
add those rays and the brightness also to the mouse over view.

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

Thanks! :-)

>> 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.

What priority has the new curtain version for you? And also, how long, 
do you think, would it take?

> 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. 

Yes, lets do the exposure first and the others after that.

Thomas


>> 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
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