[TYPO3-dam-devel] RFC: #7676: Skin support

[Michael Stucki]

Hi François & rest of you,

> I understand the concern about the change of user interface, but on the
> other hand the drop-down list in the docheader makes it coherent with
> the rest of the TYPO3 BE. I find this to be rather good, since the
> different UI proposed by the DAM has always disturbed me.

I disagree about that. The selectors are usually used to let the user
choose between completely different operation modes (like the Web =>
Info module, for example).

However, this case is different: The DAM list module offers two pages
where the selection can be made (List, Thumbnails) and one more where
the selection can be processed. That is somehow bound together.

> So indeed it would be quite nice if that were configurable, because I
> would rather not have tabs in the DAM. Not that I am against tabs in
> general (on the contrary), but then we should have tabs all over the
> TYPO3 BE.

There are two reasons for bringing them back:

1) Many users of DAM have got used to the tabs
2) This particular selector looks quite ugly :-)

As I said already, I am not an expert in usability, nor most of you are.
However, I am quite convinced that many users will miss it. And I agree
with Uschi: If it doesn't get fixed before 1.1, there is no need to do
it any more.

- michael
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