[katello-devel] Menu usability needs more work

[Tom McKay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Weiss" <jweiss at redhat.com>
> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 9:02:48 AM
> Subject: [katello-devel] Menu usability needs more work
> 
> So far I've counted at least 4 of our own engineers who could not
> figure
> out where the "Manage Orgs" link is.
> 
> Here's what I propose to make the katello easier to navigate.
> 
> * Move the Manage Orgs link to the top level, always visible
> (possibly
>   in the header, similar to where the Administer link used to be).
> 
> * Maybe rename the menu link to something else.  I think Tom
> mentioned
>   "Global".
> 
> * All javascript menu.  Moving between the "Manage Orgs" menu and
> Main
>   menu should not require a full page load.
> 
> Thoughts, suggestions?
> 
> -jeff
> 

Agree that there needs to be a more prominent way to get to the "global" features. Ideally it would be an tab at the same level as Dashboard, Content, Systems. Perhaps it could be differentiated by placing it to the far right of the screen (beneath the user, notice count, and Log Out)? This would let me hover over it as well and jump right to Users, etc. When switching to global context, the User, Roles, etc. could still be moved to be top level tabs.