[Kimchi-devel] Kimchi GUI Prototype, Base Navigation

[Walter Niklaus]

Am 21.08.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Aline Manera:
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> Hi Jan,
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> What is the proposal of that?
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> We've already had a new UI design documentation to cover all the new 
> UI elements and what you are proposing here is very different from 
> what we are doing on new UI.
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The new UI design documentation contains some great usability 
improvements but they are based on the current "master-branch" 
Kimchi/Ginger design where Kimchi and the framework are tightly 
interconnected.
The existing design document is proposing the following base navigation:


What's getting confusing from a usabiltiy point of view are especially 
the main menue points Storage and Networks because they are refferring 
to Virtual-Networks and libvirt-Storage-Pools and in the section of 
Host-Management there are similar menues for Host-Network and 
Host-Storage management. The menue points of Kimchi are expanding into 
the top horizontal section whereas the menue points of the 
Host-Management and Admin area are expanding into a vertical selection 
position.
The horizontal section is limited in how much content it can display.
We should also think about additional plugins like Containers and how we 
would have them show up in the UI.
I guess what I'm pleading here is to take the chance and look at the 
UI-design again considering the changed circumstances and benefit from 
the skill some new community members like Samuel, Jan and others are 
bringing in here.

Thanks, Walter.
> Regards,
> Aline Manera
>
> On 21/08/2015 05:21, Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I started a Kimchi GUI Prototype with the Pencil tool.
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>> First topic I would like to discuss is the base navigation proposal 
>> shown below
>> 1) There is a horizontal main navigation area which contains 'Host' 
>> and 'Virtualization'. 'Containers' is an example for a future plugin.
>> 2) There is a vertical sub navigation area. Each item in the sub 
>> navigation has an icon and a label (1 or 2 lines).
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>> I am very interested in your feedback and would like to come to an 
>> agreement on this.
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>> I will discuss with Aline if we can store the Kimchi GUI Prototype at 
>> a central place. It is packed in a single file PencilGuiPrototype.zip
>> Please extract this file and read ./readme.txt
>> To view the Kimchi GUI Prototype open file ./htmlExport/index.html in 
>> your browser and navigate by clicking on navigation tabs/buttons.
>> If you want to edit the Kimchi GUI Prototype you will find further 
>> information in ./readme.txt
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Jan
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>> Alternate design with the same navigation
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