Re: [Tiki-devel] Name of merged Admin Trackers / List Trackers? (Re: Merge Admin Trackers with List Trackers?)

> On 2012-03-14 12:26, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
>> On 2012-03-13 16:22, Philippe Cloutier wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> this week Marc and I worked on some problems with trackers in an
>>> envionment where some users can export or administrate some trackers
>>> but not all trackers. We realized that Admin Trackers was poorly
>>> WYSIWYCA.
>>>
>>> After making Admin Trackers WYSIWYCA (see r40156), there are very
>>> differences left between Admin Trackers and List Trackers.
>>
>> That should read "very *few* differences left"...
>>
>>> Primarily, Admin Trackers offers actions on each tracker via icons.
>>> This is IMO something desirable when you are in List Trackers.
>>> Offering these from List Trackers would prevent confusion from new
>>> administrators who aren't yet used to our List vs Admin concept.
>>> Admin Trackers also offers to create new trackers with a tab and a
>>> button. Again, this is IMO desirable. One effect of this difference
>>> is that Admin Trackers uses tabs. A mere reader will only see a
>>> "Trackers" tab.
>>> Admin Trackers has an "Id" column. This is useful in some cases, but
>>> does clutter the interface a bit. I am not touching this column for
>>> now, but suggestions to find a balance between informing and
>>> cluttering would be welcome.
>>> And I think that's it.
>>>
>>> As I see very few general disadvantages with Admin Trackers instead
>>> of List Trackers, we are planning to merge the two. The only real
>>> usability regressions of Admin Trackers for the mere reader I see are
>>> the Action column, which at least contains a view link, and the Id
>>> column. The Action column could be conditionally removed when it
>>> would only contain view icons if others consider that effort as
>>> necessary for merging.
>>>
>>> If there are no objections, we may proceed to the merge as soon as
>>> tomorrow (in about 24 hours).
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>
>
> So, just one question: how should the merge of "Admin Trackers" and
> "List Trackers" be called? We have a similarly unified interface for
> blogs and spreadsheets. For blogs, the menu item is called List Blogs
> (tiki-list_blogs.php) and the page's title is Blogs. For spreadsheets,
> the menu item is called List Sheets (tiki-sheets.php) and the page is
> titled Spreadsheets.
>
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