[dev] User interface options question

[Kevin Myer]

A user interface question:  a confusing issue can occur if a user is in the IMP
options screen and they click on the Filters option.  It takes them to another
screen, that has a link to Ingo, instead of to an option that they can save,
and which then takes them back to the options screen.  Users will have a
tendency to get lost if some options return you to the main options screen and
others break you out into a module.

I'm trying to get the concept across that the left sidebar should be used for
navigation, which could be enhanced if there weren't easy ways to get lost in
other modules' option menus :)

Same idea applies with the way HEAD now displays Options for all modules in the
left frame, and they show up in the menu of each application.  I think making
all the Options available in the left sidebar and totally eliminating the
Option item from the application menu would serve two purposes:  1) one-stop
shopping (clicking) for setting all options, and 2) gaining back one icon space
in the menu bar.  If someone wanted to run just a single app, without a
sidebar, they could add an Options button back in the menu by editing menu.php.

Kevin

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Kevin M. Myer
Senior Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org