[Zope3-dev] New Software Space UI

[Stephan Richter]

Hello everyone,

as you might know, I am in the process of completing the Component 
Architecture simplification work by removing the concept of services as well 
as the view API (though views were converted to adapters already). Also, the 
concept of a site manager will become a much more central concept as it holds 
both, the adapter and utility registry, and provides basically the local 
Component Architecture API.

Once I am done with the Python work, the Web UI will need some major 
refactoring as well. However, I am not good with UIs or more specifically, I 
really do not know what users expect from it. Thus I wanted to ask you guys 
how you would like the UI to behave from a functional point of view. Maybe 
answering the following questions might help:

1. What do you like about the current way of configuring components through 
the Web UI?

2. What do you *not* like in the current UI?

3. Is the "Tools" tab helpful? How could it be improved or should it be 
removed?

4. What tasks do you most frequently complete in Software Configuration space?

Thanks for your help!

Note: Please do not criticize the UI layout in general, as I am not going to 
work on it. I am just changing the software configuration UI to reflect the 
latest changes.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training