Re: brainstorm re: tabs, menus, views

Dirty minds think alike, Chad ;)

I have a few ideas that I haven't written up yet, and most of them are in  
this area, but I haven't had time to write a PLIP just yet. Any chance  
I'll see you at EuroPython so we could cook up something together? :)

-- Alexander

On Tue, 25 May 2004 13:54:45 -0400, Chad Whitacre  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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