[TYPO3-hci] 4.1 = menubar/iconbar/dashboard; lets go!

[Andreas Balzer]

Daniel Bruessler schrieb:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> what do you think - does it make sense in your eyes to collect the
> features and the wishlist in a wiki-project-page?
> 
> For me it's hard to build a picture of the whole just in my mind,
> because it affects several things. A little diagramm and a table would
> help me much. I mean the whole thing inclusive your ideas.
> 
> kind regards
> Daniel Brüßler
> 
> 
> 
> Andreas Balzer schrieb:
>> Hm.. I thought I would read something about the menubar, the iconbar and
>> the dashboard in this thread, but seeing headlines like "Inspiring
>> people to slave" makes me think about whether this discussion is on the
>> right track..
>>
>> To get back to topic (and to guess that your discussion was about
>> accessbility)I would like to mention, that we can increase accessibility
>> and usuability at the same time.
>> FIRST) If you need to be able to edit something on your website and you
>> are not able to use a JS enabled browser, then it might be better to use
>>  the FE or a special application, that is designed exactly for your
>> needs. This strategy is doable with T3 5.0, as this version afaik will
>> be able to get synched to various systems.
>> SECOND) As the whole discussion here is about ideas and how to implement
>> them, it's not the major topic to know, how skin developers will be able
>> to change the visual 'output' of those things. But i'm sure, they'll be
>> able to do so later on..
>>
>> OK.. Now back to topic ;) (and I do not want _any_ accessibility <->
>> usuability disscussions in this subpart of this thread! Ok?
>>
>> Good :)
>>
>> Some ideas of mine:
>> I like the idea of a clipboard. But displaying it on the left has a
>> major problem. If we place everything into tiny little tab-boxes, it'll
>> be hard to get to page 200 in your pagetree, because you have to scroll
>> down all the time.
>>
>> So how to solve this? I would preffer a sidebar of T3, in which you are
>> able to have the clipboard, a help system (something like the index
>> search introduced by Kasper, but with the possibility to search in help
>> documentations, mailinglist entries and a FAQ system, created by the
>> server admin for special situations..).
>>
>> Then it would be nice to have the possibility of reading T3 mailing
>> messages there and start new tasks. All of this could be viewable with a
>> backend calendar. So actually this could be placed in the dashboard, but
>> with the differences, that you'll have 2 views. View Number 1 would be
>> the main view, that is opened as soon as you start T3. It is displayed
>> in fullscreen. View Number 2 would be a simple sidebar on the right
>> (maybe?!?), that is round about 120 px in width and has an old fashioned
>> module navigation. But this navigation has to be able to react on drag
>> events. E.g.: You drag an entry from the main view (e.g.: any column)
>> onto it, it has to be able to open the right menus. (drag something on
>> Clipboard) would have to open the right submodules..
>>
>>
>> OK. Next thing..
>> I would remove the tab "functions" out of any main view of the pages and
>> pagecontents and move this functionallity into the new sidebar. This
>> could be renamed too..
>>
>>
>> Ok.. What do you think about it?
>>
>> Andreas
well in my case i don't have time to do it.. (i have to write a
"Seminarfacharbeit" :-/ (special examn for German Abitur.. )

In general you can integrate the wiki page "alternative starting page"
too, because it just talks about the dashboard (view 1)

Greetings
Andreas