I think the new UI for 2.3 is great improvement over 2.2.
I'm already finding the sorted tables of folder contents useful, and having the add new items select at the top saves time.
However, I do not like the 3-frame interface. I feel that the top frame is wasted space. The Zope logo and "Logged in as username | Logout" could as easily go at the bottom of the tree-view frame on the left. This would leave extra screen space for doing work.
I realize that I can make the frame smaller by dragging it with my mouse. I do a lot of TTW development, and I think I might find that cumbersome, so I guess I'll be hacking the top frame out of my management interface :-)
Are you guys working on 486's with 13in. monitors at 640x480 or something? :^) Seriously - Zope has been criticized for a very long time for being, ah, aesthetically challenged :) It is a valid criticism - we have been (and quite honestly, will continue to be) more concerned with function over form. But is it really so bad to make a 32 pixel-high concession to a small pittance of branding? I know that "branding" isn't important for those who are already believers, but Zope has grown enough that its reasonable to put some effort into "first impression factor". It doesn't help the community for reviews to come out that waste words on the visual appeal shortcomings of the UI and totally miss the point. A better first impression is a Good Thing. The top frame is also a place where we might want to put more "placeless" operations like logout in the future. You can only jam so much into the tree pane without it looking very much like way too much is being jammed into the tree pane :) FWIW, one of the things we may put there later is a way to do "browser preferences" via cookies to control things like default text area sizes. That could also have a "hide top frame" option for those who really can't spare the 32px. :^) Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations www.digicool.com