On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:36, Anca Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 07/14/2010 02:40 PM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:
Hi,
In order to assure the consistency of visual elements, we need to have some standards. There is already some work in progress at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/ Things that mature and are final decided, will be added at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/UserExperience/
+1 for using $theme.highlightColor as much as possible for highlighting currently hovered item.
But should the selected items be marked? It would be easier to know this as well to be able to see the whole picture.
There should be a standard for active/selected item as well. I gathered some samples here http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/ActiveStateItems Unfortunately we don't use the color consistent and we don't even have a color in the ColorThemes for this state (we've used highlightColor, backgroundSecondaryColor or custom) so this can't be set yet as standard. Anyway it should be a different color than highlighColor. IMO the selection | highlight standard should apply and be the same no matter of the element. Is should be a very special case if we break the standard. That's why I consider comment header to be an inconsistency. Thanks, Caty Thanks,
Anca
One of this proposed standards is "Items Hover State" Whenever we have multiples items displayed, the hovered item will be
marked
with $theme.highlightColor . http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/HoverStateItems
We already cover this pattern in most of the cases, but there are still some inconsistencies: - comments: only the header is highlighted; - attachments, colorthemes are not highlighted at all; - trees and WYSIWYG elements have a different color (I don't know if we can change this to use the color themes variables); - maybe others?
Having a stardard for this kind of things it will be easier to know what elements are out of order, and what needs to be fixed in order to assure the consistency. Please vote for "Items Hover State"
Here's my +1