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Confused about "System Administration" #109

Open markov2 opened 5 years ago

markov2 commented 5 years ago

I was very surprised that the "System Administration" dropdown is differs whether a table is selected. "System" has a strong feeling towards "Global". Global choices do not change on local actions. This is really hard to understand for my rigid brain.

I would like to suggest considerable changes in the header:

  1. create a top-bar (like github has) which preferably does not scroll.
    • (left) the name of the selected table, selectable for change
    • (right) fontawesome:user + user fullname/username
    • (right) fontawesome:logout + "Log out"
    • (middle) instance name
  2. "Data" --> "Table", because you speak about the "Table" everywhere else
    • no table name, because that is in the top bar.
  3. split "System Administration" into (1) "Table Maintenance" (2) "Global Settings"
  4. remove "Personal settings", which moved to the top-bar
    • it was hard to find the logout
    • the dropdown behaved different from the other option groups.
  5. with the search field
    • remove the table name from the text (can be too long)
    • change "Go" into fontawesome:search
    • the placeholder "User * for wildcard" is just to long for me: the 'd' is not shown
abeverley commented 5 years ago

Thanks @markov2, this is very similar feedback that came out of the UI/UX review - good to know that users feel the same. I'll pass it on for incorporation into the review.