[dev] Portal layout

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info>:

> Here's a mockup. It shows the header. There is one problem with
> showing it everywhere.
>
> Some apps have a select box on that place. Adding the header here
> would just take up too much real estate. So I propose to drop it when
> there is already something there.

What about including this 'statistics' block in the list of things to  
display in the menu on the setup page of each application? So if the  
admin only wants it on the portal page, he can choose to not include  
it anywhere else?

> The mockup also shows another proposal. We can drop the layout page
> completely and add 'option' buttons to each block. When the option
> button is clicked you get the controls for positioning that block, an
> option to remove it, and an edit button to set the type.

Personally, I would rather not see the layout page nuked...I think  
it's helpful to see the full layout page at one time, with the ability  
to reposition / resize the different blocks.


> At the bottom we can add 2 buttons marked add to bottom and add to
> right. They are shown as headers here to indicate the relationship to
> the blocks, but this should be configurable per theme through CSS.
>
> Cheers,
> Roel.
>
> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info>:
>>
>>> Yes, most notably the Options pages. Would it be more acceptable if we
>>> dropped the Welcome... part of the text? We could make the text
>>> smaller. If you make it normal fontsize you could make it into
>>> somekind of statistics block like:
>>>
>>> Chuck Hagenbuch
>>> Logged on:    13:50
>>> Current role: Administrator
>>
>> I like this better certainly; it's kind of what I was going for as
>> something to just do on the portal page. If we're not going to make it
>> visible on _all_ screens I'm not sure it should be visible on other
>> pages as well.
>>
>> Partly I'm looking at the Google customized home page header
>> (http://www.google.com/ig) for the idea here. http://netvibes.com/ has
>> a similar small status row across the top. They also add the nice
>> ability to type in a name for your page.
>>
>>> I still think it should be at the bottom. The looks should be
>>> (page-wide or not, and maybe even top/bottom) determined by the theme.
>>> I just took the css class I thought looked best, but we can also
>>> introduce a new class for it.
>>
>> True enough. Let's assume we'll introduce a new class for it.
>>
>>> Want me to gimp these suggestions together?
>>
>> Sure. :)
>>
>> -chuck
>>
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Thanks,
mike

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