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Re: Opinions Wanted: v3 GUI Prototype

From: Claudio Miranda <claudio_at_claudius.com.br>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:28:07 -0300

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_sun.com> wrote:
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> Do you like/dislike the menus?
> Do you like/dislike the tree?

The drop down menus are nice, but I strongly prefer the tree menu.
Tree menus, looks to better organize the options.
With tree menus, you have the option to expand all nodes, and quickly
take a look at which option to click.

A suggestion: add an autocomplete textfield on top of the tree menu,
and as the user types there, the tree menu displays only the menu
options who have those letters. One can see this feature in action on
eclipse IDE, at preferences window.

With this feature, no matter how large is the tree menu, users always
find a way to get directly to the desired page.

> Do you like/dislike the tagging feature?

In the context of appserver administration, tagging can be more of a
distraction, sorry to be honest.

suggestion 2: It really helps if all pages are bookmarkable pages, as
we can bookmark and quickly navigate to them, after login.

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  Claudio Miranda
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