Saturday, Jul 30, 12:10AM

[karzilla]

Bug counts: resolved 343, assigned 8, needs-review 3

The display settings page is getting awfully crowded. Maybe we could separate journal settings from site settings, or style settings from content settings? Surely there's some division that would make sense.

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Didn't Denise make a poll/survey thing about this at some point? Or have I dreamed it?

[kareila]

Did she? I don't remember if so.

[ninetydegrees]

Aha! http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/13432.html! Wow that was a long time ago!

[kareila]

It was! And I have no idea if anything ever came of that poll.

The other settings pages are fairly manageable - it's just Display that goes on forever. (And this patch adds yet another setting.)

[ninetydegrees]

The other settings pages are fairly manageable - it's just Display that goes on forever.

*nods* And it's hard to know what applies to the whole site and what applies to your journal only.

Edit: about the bug, I wonder how users will make the distinction between the new setting and the Entry View Style option.

[kareila]

I added a note to my setting describing the difference, but yeah, there's a big potential for confusion.

I think Site vs. Journal is probably the best way to split it.

[synecdochic]

Yeah, I still have the data from that cardsort, but it didn't really fall into any obvious patterns -- everybody was all over the place, so it didn't provide any pressingly clear paradigms to work with.

What I'm probably going to do is mock up 2-3 different alternate groupings and post about them in dw_design, then let people tell me which they'd find more intuitive to use. I was going to do that this week until various, uh, other things popped up and demanded my attention :P

[ninetydegrees]

Thanks for the info, D! I like the pick-your-favorite idea. It's an excellent compromise if the card sort didn't give significant results.

Here's to an uneventful weekend and week on all fronts!