[TYPO3-hci] proposal for tabdesign w screenshots

[Andreas Balzer]

Jens Hoffmann schrieb:
> Hi, thanks four your work in front!
> I think this is not the right solution. Sorry.
> 
> - Microsoft's Icon-Bar has bad bad Usability, please don't take it as pro.
> - If we need this much space for a Menu, the Concept must be wrong.
> - 3 Tabs Rows with the same Style is totally confusing
> - Redundant Menus is already a Problem of Typo3. This really doesn't 
> help Usability!
> - Without Icons it's faster for sure but it's bad for usability
> 
> I hope you don't hate me now :)
> But i think, if we like to make Typo3 better, we need to be direct to 
> ideas.
> 
> Friendly greez, Jens
> 
> Ps: Please comment my Ideas, too. PPT Thread.
> 
> redacted user schrieb:
>> Hello *,
>>
>> I'd like to share my approach and thoughts for the issue 
>> 'tab/menubar-design for backendmodules'. I made some mock-ups to 
>> illustrate the whole thing:
>>
>> http://screens.typoheads.at/t3_tabs/
>>
>> As you can see the basics for this design are coming from flex_forms 
>> without t3_skin (from v 4.x) enabled. This approach has IMHO some 
>> advantages:
>>
>> * users will see elements of a BE-design which is already known
>> * it is scalable: new rows can be added as you can see with quicklinks
>> * users can 'switch' off rows as they like (with the little +-icon on 
>> the outer right side)
>> * users can acces submodules in two ways: either via the second row or 
>> via the :hover-menu in the mainmodules
>> * if we use the same css-classes as in flexforms, tabs will be 
>> 'automatically' designed (as it is now with t3_skin and flex_forms) >> 
>> less work (now and in future)
>> * at least it looks like TYPO3 :-)
>>
>>
>> disadvantages:
>> * of course kasper (and maybe some others) did a lot of work already
>> * it was shown on t3con (is this an argument or not...)
>> * hmmm, come up with something...
>>
>>
>> I'd like to offer my help on the programming level for realising this 
>> menubar, please keep me updated if you need somebody.
>>
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Boris
Hi Boris!
I'm sorry, but i have to agree the opinion of Jens. Your way to show the 
menu is to confusing. It takes to much space in width and in general 
there are to many rows. I mean you have 4 rows + several drop down 
menus. That's a little bit to much.

Anyway..
Thanks for doing these images (i hope you did not code that already).
It would be nice, if you can comment on Jens pdf.

Greetings
Andreas