Re: krdc ui, looking for suggestions

Yes, your remarks are useful.  I made a couple of mockups today(prior
to reading your remarks).

Again the problem I'm mainly trying to solve is having different
things grouped into the same tabbar.

Mockup 1: http://imagebin.ca/view/B4Ki0Hh.html

This solves my problem, but I don't think it is very good for
usability or screen real estate.  You'll notice that I agree that the
History and Bookmarks should be separate.

Mockup 2: http://imagebin.ca/view/s8dxjV4.html

In this mockup, we move all of the initial tasks into a single "Home"
widget.  I think this is a good start on a solution and is similar to
what you are describing.  It doesn't help with my technical issue, but
it does make things easier.

After reading your remarks I had an idea to have a toggle button for
the Home page.  Initially when you launch the app the button would be
depressed and the home screen shown.  When you open a connection,  the
Home screen button will un-depress and the Remote Connections tab
widget will be shown.

So, I think a final solution might be a Home button, with everything
crammed onto that page.  When the home page is displayed, it covers up
the entire remote connections tab widget.

Tony


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins@xxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Friday 10 July 2009 17:48:30 Tony Murray wrote:
>
> > Zeroconf page: http://imagebin.ca/view/twf8Tg.html
>
> I was confused by your naming -- the tab is named "browse local
> network" while you are referring to it as "zeroconf" ;-)
>
> > I hope that makes things clearer.
>
> Not really :-), because you are using tabwidget for displaying various
> servers (one tab = one server). I don't think it would be possible to
> beat this because the only step you can make is to remove the tab
> widget. So I probably don't get it (100%).
>
> But, my remarks (maybe helpful, maybe not) how I would see it:
>
> http://imagebin.ca/view/rkBaPzjK.html
> just the list of active tabs, no mixing all stuff together, no history
> there (tabbar list, UI should be consistent). If anything history
> should be another pane (now I think it is more a bug).
>
> http://imagebin.ca/view/jV1KYYw.html
> I would add history button there, and convert regular buttons
> to "unfold" buttons, i.e. clicking on such would unfold the
> section -- for history, or local network. For me it is really
> unnecessary to see almost empty start page with 3 buttons. The space
> is not used at all. The first two buttons could open "section" which
> consists of URL editbox (I posted related report about this today).
>
> Additional plan B:
> And going even further. Making this not start page as today, but start
> page as in Konqueror. So when you click "home" you would get this
> page. This means opening new connection replaces this page. And this
> allow adding option "do not show tabbar for one tab". So if user is
> working solely with one connection (not that rare) tabbar is not
> shown -- space saved.
>
> http://imagebin.ca/view/twf8Tg.html
> So this would not be a separate tab, just a section in start page tab.
>
> Are those remarks answers to your question?
>
> Cheers,
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