[horde] Status on install

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von René Lund Jensen <lundeman at tbkol.dk>:

> Jan Schneider wrote:
> >>Some kind of hierarchical menu would be nice, but that smells like
> DHTML,
> >>and I don't know if we want to require that or can come up with
> something
> >>that regresses nicely.
> >
> >
> > That won't work with the current frameset structure. We could certainly
> > circumvent this with proprietary solutions but not cross browser
> compatible.
> > At least not if we do it the "standard" way with a menu opening up from
> top
> > to bottom or vice versa. We need to let the submenu slide from left to
> right
> > inside the menu bar. That probably looks really funky, but I have no
> idea
> > how that deals with usability.
> >
> 
> How about this.
> Adopting the left menu from Visio, and just applying it horisontally,
> insted of vertically.??
> 
> It would look something like this:
> 
> +-+-+-+-----+-----------+-------+--------------------+-+-+
> |A|B|C| Imp | Kronolith | Turba |                    |D|E|
> +-+-+-+-----+-----------+-------+--------------------+-+-+
> 
> OK.. the idea is that IMP, Kronolith and Turba are all buttons on
> submenu 'C'. If I wanna use submenu 'B' I would click on this,
> and the 'C-block' would move to the right, and get next to 'D'.
> which would reveal the 'B' submenu "underneath".
> Likewise... a click on 'D' would move thatone to the left, revealing
> submenu 'D'.
> 
> This way with A, B, C, D and E we have 5 submenus in this setup.

This sounds very interesting. We could even have a dhtml _and_ a static
version of such a menu. Nice idea.
 
> This is just an idea, and I'm NOT volanteering to do any patches.
> (unless I get very borred the next semester...)
> (I'm in the middel of my examns, the downside of being a student.)

Good luck! ;-)

Jan.

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