Björn,
I won't be addressing the comments one-by-one, as it mostly boils down
to "I don't like the UI/UX" (how I read it, at least). And I
absolutely understand and accept that. On the other hand, we (as in
the people who developed this) are, well, developers, and that about
sums up the UX optimizations :)
The current state makes sense for us, but we are very open to pull
requests and improvements. Or, if you don't feel like diving into
JavaScript, you can put together a feature request that will, in
detail, document the UI changes you'd like to see, the different icon
choice you made, and explain why you believe those are more
"universally understood" or better. I'm not promising everything will
be accepted, but once again, I know for a fact the UI could be better.
Thanks for taking the time to sum up your thoughts, we are looking
forward to seeing less "this sucks" and more "here's how I'd fix
it,
though"!
J.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 6:22 PM Björn Persson <Bjorn(a)xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:43 AM Artur Frenszek-Iwicki
> <suve(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > I'll forget the meaning and the numbers will go back to being visual
clutter. It would be immensely helpful
> > to have some symbolic icons next to the numbers, which would allow to easily
guess what each of them means.
>
> Sounds like you need to clear your browser cache or something, because
> there *are* symbols next to these numbers:
>
https://decathorpe.fedorapeople.org/packager-dashboard.png
I too can see the icons when I allow
fontawesome.com, but few of them
help with understanding the numbers. The beetle for "bugs" and the
speech bubble for "comments" are pretty obvious, but I still have to
point to all the others to find out what they mean, and even then many
of them seem completely random. How does a lightning bolt symbolize
updates? What's the connection between a shield and priority? A
triangle, a circle and a square combine into "overrides"? There are two
different line chart icons. How does one remember which is which? And a
seatbelt apparently means "orphans" somehow.
I assume that "PRs" stands for "pull requests". The icon for that is
the word "git". That's better than a random unrelated picture, but if a
picture is just text, then it should be actual text and not a picture.
It's also somewhat inaccurate because pull requests aren't a Git thing
but a concept that some web interfaces layer on top of Git.
Rather than hiding the intelligible words in mouseover boxes, it would
be better to write them directly on the screen instead of the icons. If
there is some idea that the icons should be language-independent, then
the beetle also fails. Software defects are not called insects in all
languages.
> > Similarly, at the top of the page, I get a banner that informs me about FAS
integration and says:
> > > After linking the dashboard with your FAS through the settings menu...
> > Which is all nice and dandy, but doing a Ctrl+F on the page for
"settings" gives exactly one match -
> > that being the text in the banner. So there's no visible link to said
"settings menu" anywhere.
> > How do I access it?
>
> The big "gear" icon (the almost universal symbol for "Settings")
in
> the top panel should be what you're looking for.
The gear is called "Options", and beside it is an icon called
"Customize dashboard". "Settings" could refer to either of those. It
would be nice to have consistent terminology, but hey, we can always
click on everything and explore.
The gear icon is also misleading. It alludes to machinery in motion, so
it suggests a menu of commands to do things, rather than options or
settings. There is a wrench icon that would be a good symbol for
settings, but that apparently means Koschei.
Björn Persson
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