brainstorm re: tabs, menus, views

Hey all,

Just wanted to toss out some observations/ideas. If there is anything 
here I will work up a PLIP.

I think it was Alex the other day that told some n00b to think of Plone 
as a web-based OS. One way to interpret this is that to a content 
manager, the Plone interface is like Windows Explorer: it is an 
interface to a file heirarchy.

One of the features of Windows Explorer (and || in other OS's) is the 
multiple ways of viewing a folder's contents, i.e., Thumbnails, Icons, 
Tiles, List, Details. I suggest we incorporate this feature into Plone, 
as an additional "View as..." action menu. If we make this move, then 
folder_listing.pt is just another view on a folder, and could be added 
to the "View as..." list.

So basically I am suggesting that we axe the "contents" and "view" tabs 
in favor of a "View as..." action menu.

Another side effect (actually, this is how we came at this in the first 
place): We wouldn't need any separate photo album products: A "photo 
album" would just be a folder of photos with "Thumbnail" for the default 
view.

There's a lot of implications to work out here but I will throw this out 
and let us talk about them together. :)




chad



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