[Zope-Coders] faassen-breadcrumb-branch

[Chris McDonough]

Ken just had a good point:

> Fiddling with a constant like link colors doesn't seem like
> a good idea to me, and i don't see the need.

Lest my recommendation makes me sound like a complete stooge to folks,
here is my reasoning, although I wouldn't fight to the death for it or
anything, it's just an observation.

The breadcrumb trail sometimes scrolls off the right-hand side of a
1064 x 768 screen (esp when dealing with ZClass method names because
the path to get to them is typically very long
(babla/propertysheets/methods/methodName).

When the text scrolls off the right side, you can't see all the path
elements without scrolling to the right.  But if several letters of
the current object name are left on the screen, you can currently
guess what its name is because the text is differentiated from all the
other text by being unlinked.  If we keep some differentiation with a
different color, we can make use of the same phenomena.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>
To: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com>; <zope-coders@zope.org>;
"Martijn Faassen" <faassen@vet.uu.nl>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-Coders] faassen-breadcrumb-branch


> I'm +1 with the additional advice that we change the link color of
the
> "current object" in the breadcrumb trail to something different than
> all of its ancestors.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com>
> To: <zope-coders@zope.org>; "Martijn Faassen" <faassen@vet.uu.nl>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Zope-Coders] faassen-breadcrumb-branch
>
>
> > Ive never worried about because I know clicking on 'Contents'
works
> (object
> > dependent), but now you mention it, it seems to make so much
> sense...
> >
> > Cheers.
> > --
> >   Andy McKay.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Martijn Faassen" <faassen@vet.uu.nl>
> > To: <zope-coders@zope.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:27 PM
> > Subject: [Zope-Coders] faassen-breadcrumb-branch
> >
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I'm asking here because I don't know where else to ask. I made
> > > a small change to
> > >
> > > /Zope/lib/python/App/Management.py
> > >
> > > to make the management screens show the last entry in the path
as
> the
> > > top as a hyperlink too. Right now, in:
> > >
> > > /foo/bar/baz
> > >
> > > you can't click on 'baz', and in my branch you can. That you
> couldn't
> > > has long been a pet peeve of mine; I try to use it as a shortcut
> sometimes
> > > in the management screens and then I'm not able to.
> > >
> > > I assume the people who originally wrote this code had a good
> reason for
> > > not making it a hyperlink, however, as they took special pain to
> > > create the existing behavior. What is the thinking behind this?
I
> > > can't really see it being a hyperlink as well as being a cause
for
> > > error or confusion. But perhaps this is simply some historical
> artificact
> > > that nobody got around to changing yet, like with the old
behavior
> of
> > having
> > > 'Created public interface' and 'Create user folder' checked in
the
> Folder
> > > add screen.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Martijn
> > >
> > >
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