[TYPO3-hci] 4.1 menubar thoughts

[Matthew Manderson]

Lasse wrote:
> What ya think??

Well, I 'think' it is going in the right direction. The menu is a bit clunky
slow to activate no mouse pointer feedback etc but I truly cannot believe
you introduced a double click!

If you need to go down the application route I would like to see the
'windows' react more like Adobe/Macromedia applications where items can
dock and snap to edges etc. This would allow me to set up my working
interface to suit me and then I'd expect the BE to remember that setup.  

I don't like the way you can't jump with one click from the 'template' view
to the 'page' view. In your demo the page window hides itself under the
template window so I couldn't see it!

What I like very much about the old BE is that you can typically jump from
one task to another with one click. ie if I am on the root page in the 
template module I can just click page and immediately be in the Page module
ready to work on that root page with one click. The frames give a sort of
state memory which works.

Personally I think the page tree is so core to TYPO3 that it should almost
always be tucked up to the left edge of the screen ready for action in one
click.

The old left > middle > right flow is very familiar now and will be a
struggle to shake off. The frames allowed you to tell one frame to do
something and then while it is still doing it you could tell another frame
to do something else. This made the BE feel fast and responsive.

Tapio has a nice idea on his BE where the page tree can collapse into the
left if needed. This may even have been your idea?

Hope these ideas help you.

Matthew