Re: [Tiki-devel] Theme Design Proposal for the Administration UX and Control Panels re-organization

Hi all,

Nice looking overall, I agree. I've always liked Tiki's "unique" 
approaches to things, like the grid of admin icons, but it's true that 
the meanings aren't clear to newcomers, or even to the rest of us 
especially since switching to icon fonts whose abstract images don't 
convey the intended meanings as well as the old motley assortment of 
more detailed png images did. So it's probably good to make the move to 
a menu with full text labels, which is a more conventional and 
immediately understandable layout and doesn't rely on tooltips so much. 
And I like the idea of a new DOM element for the menu, thinking that it 
leaves more options open for placement and behavior.

I have always liked that Tiki's administration pages share the styling 
of the public/community/presentation side of the site rather than having 
a stark utilitarian appearance. Being able to specify an admin theme 
gives the best of both worlds -- wild and woolly admin pages or 
control-room functionality, whatever people want.

As far as the item groupings are concerned, actually I still like/prefer 
what I came up with earlier, which can now be found down in the page's 
"Obsolete Stuff" (thanks, guys ;-) ) -- 
https://dev.tiki.org/Administration-UX-and-Control-Panels-re-organization#Enhanced_Grid_Display 
. I'm talking about how the section grouping of features/links is 
organized, not about their layout on the page. This grouping suggestion 
is still a contender, I believe, and of course it's open to tinkering 
and improvement.

I'm sorry I wasn't involved in the RTM discussion of this -- I had 
another meeting at the same time and couldn't pay good attention to both.

-- Gary




On 3/20/2021 1:31 AM, luciash via TikiWiki-devel wrote:
>
> Hi Bernard and all,
>
> under my supervision :) Katy quickly designed a first proposal, how 
> the admin theme could look. Please check it out and leave some 
> feedback on the page:
>
> https://dev.tiki.org/Administration-UX-and-Control-Panels-re-organization#First_step
>
> We will probably make some changes to the width of the sidebar and the 
> sections but you get the idea... ;)
>
> She will make design for collapsed sidebar and mobile versions too.
>
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