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Serhioromano / cobalt-9

Cobalt 9 Beta Test Group
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Article controls, please advise! #149

Open Serhioromano opened 5 years ago

Serhioromano commented 5 years ago

The article has a lot of actions and it was always a problem to place those actions in the template. As you see on the screenshot, I differentiate 2 action types.

  1. GRREN - Visible common actions
  2. YELLOW - Controlls

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But in fact, first buttons are controls too.

My idea is to combine all possible article actions as public and common like print, as all controls for authors and admins into a single dropdown.

What do you think?

If it is ok, what would be that button icon?

jimiero commented 5 years ago

I don't think combining all those options under one dropdown is good, you don't imagine how dumb people are sometimes..

I'd suggest you to add an option where admin can select if he want them as dropdown or a horizontal aligned nav bar.

kiranetph commented 5 years ago

My idea is to combine all possible article actions as public and common like print, as all controls for authors and admins into a single dropdown.

I checked some actual designs ...

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In an older version of Cobalt, I was always a little irritated by the menu moving existing content. For me, one of the best implementations of this type was in Yahoo mail

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Serhioromano commented 5 years ago

This is what it looks like right now without yet controls.

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To me, it looks fine and simple.

@kiranetph In an older version of Cobalt, I was always a little irritated by the menu moving existing content. For me, one of the best implementations of this type was in Yahoo mail

I did not get your position on this matter? Do you agree with this approach?

@jimiero I'd suggest you to add an option where admin can select if he want them as dropdown or a horizontal aligned nav bar.

I will take this out to the layout template. SO it will be easy to change template name and style.

Serhioromano commented 5 years ago

This menu gets really big. If not like this, I do not know how to make a clean article view and where to place that in a universal article template or list template.

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еhat is not all. еруу are 2 compare elements, another notification element and I am planning to add more to make it easier to manager articles JIP style

kiranetph commented 5 years ago

The long list shows all options, but in reality it will be less. Ordinary users normally would not have access to functions like "Create moderator", "audit Log" or "version control" etc.

Moderators or administrators have a more careful approach to it, so it does not make so much difference.

Maybe switchable controls like "Bookmark" or "Compare" should be taken out of this menu and stay on their own switchable icon as it was before.

"Edit" and "Delete" might be the most important features (at least im my use cases)

kiranetph commented 5 years ago

I did not get your position on this matter? Do you agree with this approach?

overall I like the single icon approach. but if you want to shorten it, switchable controls can be like they are now.

Serhioromano commented 5 years ago

switchable controls can be like they are now.

I do not like it as it is now. When I create interface there is no nice place to locate those. Single-button I can find a place.

Anyway since whole control is now a layout (single template file) I can make alternative layouts and make it article or article list parameter. But I'll use this one as default.

kiranetph commented 5 years ago

another inspiration: image