[Freeipa-devel] Opinions on Interface Layout for FreeIPA

[Adam Young]

Ben, thanks for the Feedback. I've taken the liberty of adding it to our 
mailing list so we can hqve an open discussion.  If you are interested, 
please subscribe.

On 01/25/2011 05:25 PM, JR Aquino wrote:
>
> On 1/25/11 2:22 PM, "Ben Hamilton"<Ben.Hamilton at citrix.com>  wrote:
>
>> Looks like a pretty straight forward interface.
>>
>> When clicking on a host group I expect to see host members. I get the 
>> need to look at the config also. Perhaps the description can be made (or
>> an icon can be added) to take the user directly to the list of hosts
>> rather than hiding it under another click.
That is a general pattern that we've identified on several of the 
entities, and something we're thinking about incorporating in the 
future.  For example, one open ticket is : "Put DNS records on the 
default page clicked off of search"
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/592.  I'd say the general 
concept is:  if an entity is mostly used as a container, put the managed 
elements on the page you go to from search.

We've had discussions on this, and we are choosing between a couple of 
approaches.


>> The enrollment tabs for group membership (hosts and people) should
>> leverage drag and drop rather than checkboxes and the assignment 
>> buttons,
>> it's not just a nice to have - it's expected behavior.
Interesting thought.  Drag and Drop on the Web is tricky, as most 
browsers now support some aspect of dragging Icons around.  Personally, 
I've been reluctant to use drag and drop for web apps, as people seem to 
have been trained no to do so.  We'll keep this in mind, though.  It 
isn't a case of being difficult to implement, but harder to  get it right.

>> Naturally the FreeIPA icon, color scheme and font faces should all be
>> customized through an icon upload and config screen and/or css.
  Everything is themed through CSS.   You can see it here: 
http://admiyo.fedorapeople.org/ipa/ui/ipa.css.

We are using some aligned images to make the Tabs structure work 
clearly, and this would make customization a little tricky.  We've had 
some discussions on customization, with look and feel being just one of 
the topics.

>> Is there any direction to take the arbitrary ipaserver tab and
>> incorporate it into the identity tab? After all, membership and
>> authorization a natural extension of who someone is (identity and
>> authorization). If not then renaming the tab to indicate what someone
>> might be able to do with it would be a good idea.

We were trying to separate out the management of entities in the 
organization from the access control for the server itself.  Thus, the 
three tabs for Server Access control mechanisms were set next to the 
server config tab.  However, your point is well taken, and we'll think 
about the Taxonomy.  If I had to venture guess, I'd say that we could 
collapse the server tab into the policy tab...and possibly move DNS into 
the Identity Tab.
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JR Aquino
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:08 PM
>> To: Opsec
>> Cc: sysadmin (email)
>> Subject: Opinions on Interface Layout for FreeIPA
>>
>> http://admiyo.fedorapeople.org/ipa/ui/
>>
>> I have been asked to direct people to the static test page for 
>> FreeIPA to
>> get feedback regarding its layout and design.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think, what doesn't make sense or looks 
>> ugly,
>> etc...
>>
>> I'll be forwarding the comments back to the web developers.
>>
>> Thanks!!!
>>
>> -JR
>>

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