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UniStuttgart-VISUS / damast

Code for the DH project "Dhimmis & Muslims – Analysing Multireligious Spaces in the Medieval Muslim World" (VolkswagenFoundation)
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Settings pane hard to find with smaller screens; GUI "overwhelming"? #148

Closed tutebatti closed 2 years ago

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

Another response I got was connected to being overwhelmed with all the features when opening the visualization and, at the same time, not easily being able to access the settings pane on a smaller screen.

One suggestion was to show the map and timeline only when first accessing the visualization and have clickable bars at the side opening the additional views.

Regarding the settings pane: is it intended to have 4 views (confidence, source, tags, settings) stacked while religion is by itself. I do know that the visitor can move the views as they wish, but maybe the settings pane which is long, similar to the religion view, could be placed there by default?

mfranke93 commented 2 years ago

One suggestion was to show the map and timeline only when first accessing the visualization and have clickable bars at the side opening the additional views.

That sounds like a considerable implementation effort, which is why I would discourage it. If someone wants to implement and test it, they are free to submit a PR, though.

Regarding the GUI being overwhelming: yes. This is a complex thing that needs some time to get familiar with.

Regarding the settings pane: is it intended to have 4 views (confidence, source, tags, settings) stacked while religion is by itself. I do know that the visitor can move the views as they wish, but maybe the settings pane which is long, similar to the religion view, could be placed there by default?

The default layout, as with many other things, is just what worked and made sense for me. In the current layout, the "original views" (religion, map, timeline, location list) are all visible at once, even when opening the settings. That was kind of the idea during implementation. All the new views got added to the top left. But of course, all of this is intended and designed for a "normal-sized" screen (I think 1080p is more or less the standard today, even on laptops), with the understanding that those on smaller screens would have to change their layout once and save it, and it would work fine from then on. Having many first-time visitors with smaller screens was not part of the original design. Feel free to come up with a better default layout that works on smaller and larger screens.

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

In the current layout, the "original views" (religion, map, timeline, location list) are all visible at once, even when opening the settings.

This is a good point! Thank you!

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

I will close this via #149.