From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Murphy To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Backup: Rework and altering of functionalities and GUI for better usability Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:48:23 -0500 Message-ID: <6D6BDB01-F0D1-4CC0-9CE0-077458F7AA2B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9f52f9f4-840b-ab27-de98-8d3e61222563@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0395019312686639538==" List-Id: --===============0395019312686639538== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable What ever happen with the backup / restore icons? Did this get resolved and = approved? Jon > On Mar 23, 2021, at 4:10 AM, Adolf Belka wrote: >=20 > Hi All, >=20 > On 22/03/2021 20:58, Jon Murphy wrote: >> The current icons are very confusing! Bigger and less confusing icons wou= ld be great! >>=20 >>=20 >>> On Mar 22, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Tom Rymes > wrote: >>>=20 >>> On the flip side, I have always found the icons to be confusing. Which is= delete, which is download? Hovering if the mouse, etc ensues. If they were b= igger it might be less confusing, but words are always clear. >>>=20 > I never really had a problem with the meaning of the icons. If I forgot I j= ust put the mouse over the icon and it told me what it was. >=20 > With text then you need to make sure the text is clear in all languages and= then the buttons need to be big enough to hold the complete text. If the but= tons are too small then the text becomes too small and that can be a problem = for people who have poor eyesight and there are Community members who have to= deal with that. >=20 >>>> On Mar 22, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Jon Murphy > wrote: >>>>=20 >>>> =EF=BB=BF For what it is worth, I=E2=80=99d rather see icons and not the= buttons. It is a much cleaner look. Just my opinion. >>>>=20 >>>> The icons already available on the IPFire box look better to me: >>>> |/srv/web/ipfire/html/images/delete.gif| >>>> |/srv/web/ipfire/html/images/go-bottom.png| >>>> |/srv/web/ipfire/html/images/floppy.gif| >>>>=20 >>>>> On Mar 21, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Matthias Fischer > wrote: >>>>>=20 >>>>> Based on https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D12588 >>>>>=20 >>>>> Hi, >>>>>=20 >>>>> in the meantime I worked on this - a bit. >>>>>=20 >>>>> I've made several changes and adjustments which could be implemented one >>>>> by one - if they are wanted/accepted: >>>>>=20 >>>>> - Changed icons to buttons =3D> better readability. >>>>>=20 >>>>> - For buttons to work, I added two lang strings for button labeling. >>>>>=20 >>>>> - Cleaned up the code a bit, some if-queries were unnessecary (if >>>>> ($cgiparams{'ACTION'} eq...). >>>>>=20 > Always good to clean up the code. >>>>> - Changed the order of the (Addon-)buttons to "Download - Save - Delete" >>>>> (old: Download was in the middle). >>>>>=20 > The benefit of the old system was that the order of the buttons for the bac= kups and addons was the same with addons just having the "Backup" button adde= d to the right. >>>>> - Marked IPF-files bold =3D> better readability (I already sent this in >>>>> one day: =3D> https://patchwork.ipfire.org/patch/3124/ ). >>>>>=20 >>>>> - Added query for deleting a backup file (onclick=3D\"return confirm...= ). >>>>>=20 > This I think is very important. If you hover the mouse over the Delete butt= on and then accidentally press the button then the file is gone. >>>>> Details in the attached screenshot. >>>>>=20 >>>>> Proposed ToDo - as a start: Alter the info text for restoring to make >>>>> clear that only the addon *configs* are restored, not the addons themse= lves. >>>>>=20 >>>>> Thoughts? Opinions? >>>>>=20 >>>>> Best, >>>>> Matthias >>>>> >>>>=20 >>=20 --===============0395019312686639538==--