The UI looks weird

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Jun 29 08:41:30 PDT 2014


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 08:43:48AM -0300, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
> <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> wrote:
> > I just built the latest Subsurface, and a couple of things are weird:
> >
> > 1)  When I started without a log  I got planner stuff in the bottom half of
> > the UI: http://imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=18164
> 
> easy to fix.

I assume you'll send this in your next patch series? It's trivial for me
to fix as well, but I don't want us to step on each other.

> > 2) The calendar widget doesn't fit well into the UI.  It is quite huge, and
> > would look better if we just displayed the date, I think.  The date and time
> > inputs could use some more vertical space too, since the temperature inputs
> > are very wide.  How about something like this:
> > http://jtmorris.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/DatePicker.png ?
> 
> Better than the one we have currently - I don't wanna kill the one I
> did because I think it can be userful for the future, but I can change
> for the one you showed.

After all the work I did on the current one. Sniff :-)
But I agree that visually the one Henrik suggests might be better after
all.

> > 3) The colors in Add Plan makes the profile difficult to read (notice the
> > light red and green colors on blue background):
> > http://imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=18165
> 
> I used that color temporarely to easy spot what I was doing, I agree
> that we need better colors.

Definitely :-)
Strangely I had gotten used to the crazy colors - but they make no sense.

/D


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