Thank you very much for your valuable ideas Alex. As we discussed in IRC, I will move into implementing basic structure of the dashboard rather than bothering about widget design. After doing that, we can go into widgets.
Cheers On 3/27/15, Alexander Shorin <kxe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Dulanga Sashika <wadsash...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1q4whsd460neil/Dashboard_mockup.png?dl=0 > > http://i.imgur.com/FFiIpbv.png > > 1. Widgets customization button shouldn't consume so much valuable space. > 2. These buttons are duplicates sidebar menu items without giving any > benefits. > 3. 10 active replication are cool, but which are there? I to get this > I need to click more which isn't much different from click on Active > Tasks sidebar menu item and select filter by replication tasks. > Dashboard should just works and not require any actions from use side. > If user click on widget and leaves it - dashboard main goal is failed. > 4. Active tasks are already running (: There couldn't be active > stopped ones. Also, here you can show active replications and add some > filter. Yes, it will duplicate an active tasks page at some points, > but the difference is in short summary of the recent activity shaped > into compact form. > 5. Recently visited databases cool, but are they be only 4? May be 10 > or 20? How about search field to filter this list as well? > 6. Again button that leads to some other page. Why not just a simple > list users and a form to search and register new ones? > 7. Same problem. Why not a form to instantly run a replication? If it > will be a replication widget, it could also steal a part of features > from active tasks widget to show only replications. > > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > -- W. A. Dulanga Sashika, Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
