On Jun 27, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Squirrel wrote:
Hi guys,
I know, it's kind of late to give you a general feedback for the new admin interface, nevertheless I'd like to point some things out:
* The icons are nice, but way too big (tested on 1280x800, FF3, Opera & Konqueror) * In the 'Rights' section the two tables don't have the same width, though the same content and space is unnecessarily wasted (this is true for most sections) .. * I miss some structure, categories...everything seems now cluttered...I know, underneath not much changed, but compared with the previous surface it's now quite obvious to me. Ie. the 'User' and the 'Group' section. They just make no sense anymore. I guess you could easily integrate the 'Group' section into the 'User' section and call it 'User Administration'.
I also have a small issue here. Before it was ultra easy to switch between users/groups/rights. Now it's a little bit more involved (requires one more click and more time since you have to make the icons visible). One solution could be to group them together into a Users & Permissions icon and then have 3 tabs, one for each. I'm not sure though if this would be better or not so I'd not change anything right now and wait for more feedback.
Some clickable filter (titles like 'username' 'groupname' etc.) and a search input-field.
I don't understand this one since we already have this I think.
And instead editing the group and add a new user to the group, you add the group(s) to the user. If you edit a group (click on the groups name) you will then not adding users but change the rights for the group ('Rights' section)....
ok now I understand what you mean. However I'm not sure I like it. It'll make things less clear IMO, too cluttered and will prevent us to add new features in the future.
if you add a group you give it a name and set the groups rights. * I miss a content overview...this interferes somehow with spaces, pages and rights...
What do you mean by "content overview"?
* The space preferences are (still) puzzling to me, although I don't have a better solution in my sleeves...
Could you elaborate?
Hmm...I don't have enough time *right now* to explain in deep what I mean...actually I'm not quite sure about what I mean either...it's just a feeling that there is something not quite right...I don't know. I'm sorry I'm this late with my input...
I hope it's not useless and if so, feel free to ignore this post ;-)
No no it's good feedback, we just need a little bit more explanations :) Thanks! -Vincent
I'm testing now the functional part of it.
Cheers, Squirrel