Re: Use of MidCOM toolbars

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Hi,

- --Henri Bergius wrote on 2006-02-15 12:08:
>>> * `top`: actions user can take, including "Create article", "Report  
>>> as spam"

Report as spam would be something i'd accociate with the bottom, not top toolbar
(in a Mail system for example)...

>>> * `bottom`: different views of the same object or listing,  
>>> including "Edit", "Delete", "Revisions"
> 
> We're now updating OpenPsa 2 to use this new toolbar convention.
> 
> To see what I mean, check out
> http://www.nehmer.net/~bergie/openpsa-newstyle-calendar.jpg
> 
> The toolbar with blue background on the left is the "top" toolbar and  
> contains action "Create event". The toolbar in the top of the view is  
> the "bottom" toolbar and contains view changes like "Today" and  
> "Month view".
> 
> Similarly, in
> http://www.nehmer.net/~bergie/openpsa-newstyle-spammer.jpg
> 
> the "top" toolbar contains actions like "Create SMS" and the "bottom"  
> toolbar contains views like "Edit".

See my other mails, this about matches the distinction I have proposed, with the
"top" toolbar holding operations that apply generally to the current node, while
the "bottom" toolbar contains operations that apply to the current "view".


Still there are questions I ask myself (apart from what I wrote in the other mails):

The visualisation you show there is nice for OpenPSA, but we need something much
more general that can be integrated into on-site administration easily.

Also, I wonder what happens if topic management specific operations start to be
added to the "top" toolbar. I'm not even sure if this is a good idea, or if we
should have another toolbar called "admin" or the like that holds stuff external
of the current component which does what the topic admin class of AIS originally
did.

Live long and Prosper!
Torben Nehmer

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Torben Nehmer, Guenzburg, Bavaria, Germany
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