RE: Mailman-Developers digest, Vol 1 #328 - 6 msgs

I agree with everyone's admiration for your changes. I have one reservation, however - i much prefer the existing arrangement, if not necessarily the appearance, of the activity index at the top of the page. I think the regular matrix you use is too regular - i'd prefer the links to the configuration options pages to be more clearly separate from the "other" activities. I think having them in two separate columns, as we currently do, is not a bad arrangement - though i can see how it can be incongruous with everything else being arranged in tables.
I also have a logistical reservation about the 70-character-wide text entry boxes at the bottom. One thing we've been thinking about for improving navigation through mailman, in general, is use of a sidebar and a "top"bar. This would use up some of the real estate needed for hard-wrapped, full width text entry boxes. (We've also been thinking about how we would make mailman "play nicely" with the existing style of a host site, another potential real-estate loss, but this is getting pretty hypothetical.) I just mention this to enter it into the picture...
(BTW, i guess i'm primarily responsible for the existing layout of many of the mailman pages - though really, i refined/reworked to greater and lesser degrees what i originally got from john viega, and based some of my changes on contributions, particularly from robin friedrich. And i have to admit to a possibly stubborn liking of the "cumbersome white lines", which nicely delineate the options, to my eye. That said, i think the only real reservation i have is the one concerning the activity index at the top, and would be happy to go with all your other changes - thanks!!)
Ken Manheimer klm@digicool.com

"KM" == Ken Manheimer <klm@digicool.com> writes:
KM> I think the regular matrix you use is too regular - i'd prefer
KM> the links to the configuration options pages to be more
KM> clearly separate from the "other" activities. I think having
KM> them in two separate columns, as we currently do, is not a bad
KM> arrangement
I agree. Dan, would it be difficult to simply separate columns 1&2 from column 3?
-Barry

"KM" == Ken Manheimer <klm@digicool.com> writes:
KM> I think the regular matrix you use is too regular - i'd prefer
KM> the links to the configuration options pages to be more
KM> clearly separate from the "other" activities. I think having
KM> them in two separate columns, as we currently do, is not a bad
KM> arrangement
I agree. Dan, would it be difficult to simply separate columns 1&2 from column 3?
-Barry
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Barry A. Warsaw
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Ken Manheimer