suggestions for new UI in progress

[TallTed]

Originally posted by @TallTed in https://github.com/OpenLinkSoftware/fct/issues/6#issuecomment-861871381

@kidehen /cc @danielhmills

I see... I thought those sentences would appear in the main UI, but I now see they're in a mouseover display tied to the "Retry" button. Looking at this page...

• I think the "timeout" and "partial/no results!" info should be much more obvious, perhaps atop the table, maybe as a watermark across the table, and definitely not requiring a mouseover of "Retry" to be revealed.

• I think the "Retry" button should be styled as a button. Right now, it looks like advisory text.

• The invisible scroll-bar on the right is not obviously present. (I'm used to such things, and it still took me more than a few ticks to comprehend it.) The slider looks like a decoration, not an interactive element.

• The Go to: ___ Show 50 51 - 100 of 1494 total < > is challenging. I think something like

  Show ___ rows, from ___ to ### of ### total  <  >

  where both ___ and ### are filled in by FCT when delivering a page (including the default row-count and 0 for the others when results are empty), ___ are user editable, and ### are not editable.

• I have a giant screen. It's generally worthwhile to limit the width of textual content, because of the way eyes work, but there's no reason not to use the full height of my screen.

• Given that the active real estate is part of my open window, the odd clickable box at far-upper-right of my window should actually be at far-right of the active real estate; similarly, the mysterious box it opens should be at far-left of active real estate, not at far-left of my window.

• I suggest changing the About... box title from About This Virtuoso Faceted Browser Instance to About this Virtuoso Faceted Browser instance.

[kidehen]

Okay, @danielhmills will look into most of these as part of his final cleanup activities re current beachhead release (i.e., a batch of PRs to follow later today).