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| Time | Nick | Message |
|---|---|---|
| 14:58 | gmcharlt | owen: for now, can just copy and paste into a new bug report |
| 15:06 | owen | roughly: http://zivotdesign.com/example[…]-detail-fsc2.html |
| 15:07 | ...but that would require the 'similar items' block to move as in this example: http://zivotdesign.com/example[…]detail-nekls.html | |
| 15:08 | gmcharlt | looks good, although I think the save the record could retain the format dropdown, as that doesn't affect vertical space much |
| 15:09 | owen | Does it still make sense to have the link say "Search for this title in..." ? "More searches" ? |
| 15:12 | nicomo | i have to say I'm not too keen to see the "save" dropdown fall at the end of the page |
| 15:14 | owen | That's what gmcharlt votes too, nicomo, so I'm trying to put it back up with the Hold and Cart links. |
| 15:14 | nicomo | ok, i had misunderstood |
| 15:15 | kados | it's too easy to confuse that with the shelf browser IMO |
| 15:15 | gmcharlt | well, similar items could be relegated to a tab, a la the reviews and comments |
| 15:16 | kados | what if all of the right-hand stuff were to move to the left-hand side of the page and the tabbed interface were to the right of it? |
| 15:16 | owen | You still get a situation where the holding table is giving the page a lot of horizontal scrolling |
| 15:17 | kados | so you'd basically have two columns -- the left-hand one(30% of the page), and the right-hand one (70% of the page) |
| 15:18 | owen | But, that idea fits better with the layout framework in terms of managing space. |
| 15:19 | nicomo | I like gmcharlt idea : a tab for similar items |
| 15:23 | kados | nicomo: i do too, but I also like the current design for that, which adds depth to the page and gives it a more amazon-style look and feel |
| 15:25 | owen | Makes it look like there are lots of goodies to explore |
| 15:29 | danny | if you go back to keep the right column the same, whether it is on the right or the left, you still have the problem of the item table being too wide, like you said, is it possible to think about redesigning the table |
| 15:30 | could have sorting down by drop down instead of the table sorter arrows, then you could group some columns together | |
| 15:31 | owen | danny: true, but you can't do that with jquery like we do now. It would require a page-reload. |
| 15:35 | danny | right, unless you had the drop down list just do an ajax query when selected to display the table instead of a page reload |
| 15:36 | owen | Sure. My natural inclination is to look for client-side solutions |
| 15:36 | gmcharlt | I'd be in favor of using AJAX for the items just on general principles |
| 15:37 | owen | http://zivotdesign.com/example[…]-detail-fsc3.html |
| 15:40 | frederic | owen: intersting discussion and nice screenshots! |
| 15:41 | I like this one: http://zivotdesign.com/example[…]detail-nekls.html | |
| 15:41 | On the top left, you have a grey box with: Place hold, Print and Add to your cart. | |
| 15:42 | On the bottom, you have to grey boxes: Search for this titles and Save Record. | |
| 15:42 | Why wouldn't you group them on the top left, replacing "Place hold,etc."? | |
| 15:42 | You could have just tree items with subitems: (1) This title, (2) Search elsewhere and (3) Save. When you click on This title, you show options: Place hold, etc. | |
| 15:43 | gmcharlt | frederic: that would hide common actions |
| 15:44 | place hold, etc. should remain visible | |
| 15:44 | frederic | gmcharlt: no so common except add to cart |
| 15:45 | gmcharlt | as always, depends on users |
| 15:45 | place hold is very common action in my experience | |
| 15:45 | frederic | for me the model is Flickr menu bar |
| 15:46 | owen | Yeah, I would expect place hold to be the most common action for my users |
| 15:46 | frederic: in general we try to avoid application-like widgets in the Opac in favor of links and buttons | |
| 15:48 | frederic | owen: Google main page operates also that way. You have an horizontal menu bar, very unobstrusive, with an arrow for accessing uncommon options |
| 15:49 | owen | Yes, just as we have in the staff client |
| 15:49 | frederic | owen: yes, but without button: it occupies to much space |
| 15:51 | owen | anyway, I don't think the vertical space taken up by the hold, save, and search links is really an issue |
| 15:51 | It's really a question of how to make room for both a wide holdings table and a potentially large list of similar items | |
| 15:51 | frederic | Look this one for example (bottom of the page): http://p.sohei.org/stuff/jquer[…]nu/demo/demo.html |
| 15:53 | That's why I said this layout works better for me: http://zivotdesign.com/example[…]detail-nekls.html | |
| 15:54 | The question becomes: how to dispose action menus, Place hold, Print, Save, Search worldcat, etc. and so a menu with suboptions if necessary | |
| 15:56 | owen | Not if you go with this option, http://zivotdesign.com/example[…]-detail-fsc2.html |
| 15:58 | frederic | Yes, but More searches for this title requires a submenu, isn't it? |
| 15:58 | owen | Yes, but a simple dropdown menu, similar to the "Lists" button |
| 15:59 | Sorry guys, I have to head out. Feel free to keep up the discussion. | |
| 15:59 | frederic | owen: I'm not saying something else... |
| 16:18 | gmcharlt: I got two patches awaiting your approval. Did I miss something? | |
| 16:18 | gmcharlt | frederic: no, I'm just in process of trying to catch up with the patch queue |
| 16:19 | frederic | I can imagine, thks |
| 16:20 | atz | gmcharlt: just sent a cute security patch for that till reconciliation report-that-should-not-be |
| 16:20 | gmcharlt | atz: just pushed it |
| 16:21 | atz: since it's commented out, please post on koha-devel asking if anybody objects to removing it outright (and is willing to fix it) | |
| 16:21 | if you don't hear anything, kill it | |
| 16:21 | atz | word |
| 18:45 | cau0730 | hi :) hows everyone doing??? |
| 18:46 | so I work for a school division that has been using koha2 in their schools and I have recently came on board and want to upgrade to koha 3. how different is the db and how hard would it be to import the data over from the koha 2 db. | |
| 18:48 | let me state that i am a new hire here and the old guy that was originally working with this koha version really messed it up, so i am actually here to fix it and i think if we are going to fix it that one of the steps would be to move to koha 3 | |
| 18:54 | i also want to state that i think koha is a great project. i currently work on the syllable project(www.syllable.org) | |
| 19:06 | acmoore | hi cau0730. I'm pretty sure there's an upgrade script in the distribution to convert your 2.whatever database to a 3.0 one and to help you move your data. |
| 19:06 | I don't know much about it, though. | |
| 19:07 | gmcharlt | cau0730: have a look at http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?[…]30&s=update22to30 |
| 19:07 | I'd recommend that you take lots of backups, of course | |
| 19:08 | and you may want to set up a test Koha 3.0 DB first, to get familiar with the new features | |
| 19:08 | before trying the upgrade from Koha 2 | |
| 19:19 | cau0730 | thank you all very much |
| 19:20 | we have two servers... one is our production server and one is our test... we will be using the test for everything like this until we have a working product | |
| 19:21 | one thing to note is that i plan on pushing some of my changes back into koha... who would i submit them to? | |
| 19:22 | acmoore | you can get a copy of the koha git repository and use that to create patches, then send them to the patcheskoha.org list. You should probably subscribe to the koha-devel mailing list, too, in case you want to get more help with your potential changes or listen in on what some others are up to. |
| 19:22 | the wiki at the address that gmcharlt sent you has more information about contributing, using git, and the mailing lists. | |
| 19:23 | patches are always encouraged! | |
| 19:23 | cau0730 | thank you again |
| 19:23 | you will definitely get patches from me :) | |
| 19:23 | one thing is there an inventory system in koha 3 yet | |
| 19:24 | btw: i am mainly a c++ programmer with some php knowledge so i have all ready 2 books in perl :) i love perl's regular expressions though :) | |
| 19:26 | also does anyone know if the z3950 works in v3 because i was told that it didn't work in 2 | |
| 19:28 | btw: i really wasn't lying when i said this guys code is bad... he statically creates functions in each file to do the same functionality that he wants instead of just creating his own package | |
| 19:30 | gmcharlt | cau0730: Z39.50 works in Koha 3 - both to search other targets and to search the Koha database |
| 19:31 | there's also an inventory tool, but it's pretty simple | |
| 21:00 | cau0730 | .thanks about the inventory tool :) that will help |
| 21:01 | i can't seem to get 3 installed though for some reason apache won't load properly | |
| 21:01 | i am sure i will get it working though | |
| 21:19 | gmcharlt | hdl: about? |
| 21:30 | topicfight! | |
| 21:30 | :) | |
| 21:30 | so you've been working on a time machine in your spare time, chris? | |
| 21:31 | chris | well its yesterday where you are :) |
| 21:31 | gmcharlt | you NZers are so insufferable, being just slightly ahead of us USians all the time ;) |
| 21:31 | chris | heh |
| 21:33 | gmcharlt | been doing much playing with memcached and Koha lately? |
| 21:33 | chris | not lately, but i have been doing a lot with it for work |
| 21:34 | and adding nginx to the mix | |
| 21:34 | (nginx can serve pages directly out of memcached if they exist) | |
| 21:34 | which is pretty nice | |
| 21:35 | so I have lots of ideas to apply :) | |
| 21:37 | mostly there are a lot of objects in koha, that could be cached | |
| 21:38 | the languages is a big win (if its on it shows on every page on the opac and is slow to generate .. and doesnt change) | |
| 01:07 | atz | wow I never knew the library of congress OPAC was such crap! |
| 01:07 | http://catalog.loc.gov | |
| 01:07 | not even close to valid HTML... this is pre browser-wars insanity | |
| 01:09 | there's a mix of LINK, SCRIPT and TABLE tags... before the DOCTYPE! | |
| 01:11 | and more after the </body> | |
| 01:12 | just.... wow. | |
| 03:24 | kados | that's voyager for ya |
| 09:44 | soroush | Hi Guys! Can you help me with an indexing problem, please? |
| 10:34 | anybody can help me? |
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