[Building Sakai] NeoPortal Adjustments?

[Bryan Holladay]

Yea... smoothdivscroll (just vertical instead of horizontal).  But I can see
that being annoying with a site like you mentioned w/MyWorkspace.  So, my
vote is either just a link or both a link and the scroll.

-Bryan


On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:

> You're talking about something like http://www.smoothdivscroll.com? Seems
> like an option, but would a user prefer to wait to get through a list of
> items, or just go straight to the site to select it?
>
> Google has opted for just a link to "View All >" on
> their Notifications drop down tab, and limits it to around 8 notifications.
> (This was basically what Chuck suggested) This takes you straight over to a
> different page.
>
> [image: g+ notifications.png]
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm not a UI person or play one on TV but how's this sound:
>>
>> Have a hard coded max size for the dropdown, then have it do some jquery
>> magic auto scroll when the mouse gets close to the bottom of the list to see
>> the rest of the list.
>>
>> Is that possible, sound good?  Maybe have a down arrow at the bottom
>> suggesting more tools.
>>
>> -Bryan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> This was an arbitrary choice and I am open to any suggestions.
>>>
>>> My idea was that too many would make the UI look broken and be hard to
>>> scroll so I put in a limit that I figured folks would not notice.
>>>
>>> But I too have noticed it.
>>>
>>> Perhaps there needs to be a "More..." that just goes to the site if there
>>> are >= the limit (which should be configurable).
>>>
>>> /Chuck
>>>
>>> On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Beth Kirschner wrote:
>>>
>>> > The 2.9 NeoPortal tool pull-down currently doesn't display more than 14
>>> tools (see https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20944) -- which
>>> gives users a truncated list of tools without any reason why. I'd suggest
>>> that the simplest way to fix this would be to display all tools without
>>> truncating the list. The next best option might be to display only a
>>> configurable set of "core" tools, and otherwise display an explanatory note.
>>> More details are in the JIRA.
>>> >
>>> > Thoughts?
>>> > - Beth
>>> >
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