Re: [orion-dev] Gray 0.4 UI

[Susan Franklin McCourt <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, John.
Thanks for the comments. The big change here is that those gray things used to be completely hidden until you hovered, so you had an empty column, and when you hovered, everything popped up. This has been a long standing problem because there's no affordance for the commands, it's not accessible, and it doesn't work on a touch device. So moving forward, we need to find a way to show the commands, or show an accessible trigger for them. When the commands are "full strength" the page is quite noisy, so it's a matter of balancing that "disabled" look with the noise.

For M1, the simple change was to alter the opacity. I agree that git clones looks especially weird. We've always wanted to organize those text links and icons in a cleaner fashion, but with them all visible, and the gray, I agree it's weird/too much. The long term strategy is to reorganize/group those commands and play with different variations on style

The arrow button is being replaced with a custom graphic. The hover treatment will get improved as we finalize the presentation.
While not strictly related to the gray, the bug you could watch in this area is:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=360986

susan

John J Barton ---12/13/2011 09:02:42 PM---Parts of the new UI look broken. For example, on git-clone I have only disabled buttons for Git Sta

From: John J Barton <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Orion developer discussions <orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/13/2011 09:02 PM
Subject: [orion-dev] Gray 0.4 UI
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Parts of the new UI look broken.  For example, on git-clone I have
only disabled buttons for Git Status and Git Log and More. So the only
operation I can seem to perform is to bring up the  (still broken)
Repository configuration.

If I hover on the Git Status then the text becomes non-disabled, the
text becomes underlined, and I get at tooltip. That's at lot! It's too
much.

I understand the desire to signal the about-to-be-pressed buttton over
others, as well as using some amount of gray to be able to pop the
highlight, but I think this  version is way too gray.

On the Navigator, the pre-fix drop-down is gray: I assume it is
disabled. On the other hand the twisty is not gray, it must be active.
But actually they are neither active nor disabled, just ready to go.
It's confusing.

jjb
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