[schooltool-dev] Re: [Cando] Re: new CanDo 07 UI mockups...

[Jason Straw]

Tom Hoffman wrote:
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>
> On 7/9/07, *Jason Straw* <lists at misato.us <mailto:lists at misato.us>>
> wrote:
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>     I have a fairly major problem with this.  It doesn't work at all
>     in the
>     confines of the SchoolTool look and feel, so if someone decides to use
>     SchoolTool and CanDo they cannot do so easily.
>
>     I am ccing schooltool-dev as well.
>
>     Everything you can do in SchoolTool needs to be accessible in whatever
>     you do for CanDo, and the UI changes should be ones that can be
>     mirrored
>     by SchoolTool so that the look and feel is the same for someone
>     switching back and forth.
>
>
> I'm just confused at this point...  we did write a lot of code last
> year to change to a tab based UI, it just didn't get finished and
> merged.  POV actually did a fair amount of work on it after the
> sprint.  Beyond that, I don't think anyone had any serious
> objections.  The only thing that was controversial at all was the
> "temporary tabs" which might have been an unnecessarily complexity.

I really would like dwelsh and jelkner to go through that branch before
implementing this new stuff.  If that does most of what they want.. they
should get it merged rather then reinventing the wheel.
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>     I am also concerned about a Gutsy or Gutsy+1 release for CanDo with a
>     wildly divergent UI from it's parent product. 
>
>
> We do need to wildly diverge at some point, because the overall
> navigation is still very weak.
As a group we need to move from where we are, I agree we need to fix
navigation, but not that CanDo and SchoolTool need divergent navigation.

I want to hear from Paul Carduner on this, cause I would like to see his
views on this (and he's just seeing these mockups now...

Jason