[samigo-team] Question about Samigo on trunk

[Neal Caidin]

Thank you Keli, that helps clarify the direction of this change for me. I am not a UX expert but I like the sound of that. Thanks to Sam also for his explanation and for the initial prototype. 

I think everyone is busy with their local installations and/or working on the 2.9.0 release (I've had several people apologize for not helping out more on the 2.9 release because they are so busy at their local institutions.).  This sounds like a 2.10 change in the works. 

Cheers,
Neal



On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Keli Sato Amann <kamann at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi Neil, Narasi
> The original thought was that we would consolidate the 14 categories to just four sections so that when you had one section of the accordion open, it you could see all of the relevant settings that had an effect on each other. 
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> DRAFT: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAM/Settings+rework
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> If you are scrolling past 13 sections, it is easy to forget what you were looking at, so this would allow you to tap, view/work on a set of settings, then tap to quickly get to one of the other 3 sections. We have not had time to implement the consolidation of the 14 sections, but Sam has added the accordion pattern ahead of time to get us started. 
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> We've been meeting about design for a while, but it's fallen off in recent months, in part because people (e.g. I) have just gotten busy with other projects. We'll try to tackle this one section at a time and take this from rough wireframe to spec.
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> Keli Amann
> User Experience Specialist
> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Ottenhoff" <ottenhoff at longsight.com>
> To: "Narasi Ramachandran" <rnarasi at ufl.edu>
> Cc: "Samigo Team" <samigo-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 1:02:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [samigo-team] Question about Samigo on trunk
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> Patches to improve the behavior are always happily accepted. 
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> To my eyes, it's a great improvement in the user interface. The jQuery UI accordion is a well-maintained piece of code in use on lots and lots of websites. The accordion functions one panel at a time: 
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> http://jqueryui.com/accordion/ 
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> --Sam 
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Ramachandran,Narasi < rnarasi at ufl.edu > wrote: 
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> Yes I agree the a double scroll is pain, but not having the option is not that great either when we have to click each setting option to configure, especially when we have so many setting options and changes of things getting overlooked are high. Is there a better way than going All or Nothing? 
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> Thanks, 
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> Narasi 
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> From: samigo-team-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto: samigo-team-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org ] On Behalf Of Sam Ottenhoff 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:54 PM 
> To: Neal Caidin 
> Cc: Samigo Team 
> Subject: Re: [samigo-team] Question about Samigo on trunk 
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> I replaced the old settings with a jQuery-UI accordion in https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAM-1733 . 
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> I believe part of the problem with Open All is that it forced double scrollbars on users and double scrollbars are a bad thing. 
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> --Sam 
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Neal Caidin < nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org > wrote: 
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> Hi All, 
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> On trunk, Samigo does not have the Open all menus for Settings like it does on the 2.9 qa servers. Is this a planned change for a future version? Trying out different interface approaches? Curious. 
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> Thanks, 
> Neal 
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