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ENHANCEMENT | Make Directory and Server Menu Headers more clear and also match their icon buttons at the same time

Open wayneoutthere opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

When you mouse-over the hard-drive icon at the top right it displays 'management' which is a great name. however, after clicking it you are taking to something called "Directory" which is not a clear name. I would make a simple change from "Directory" to 'Management Directory" or, to 'Management". Easy, logical, makes left pane much more logical.

Similarly, when you mouse-over the 'mixer board' icon you see 'Settings'. This is a pretty good name, however, it's not super clear. When you push it you are taken to the left pane Header called "Server'. this is medium good too. However, if you put them both together, it's great, in my opinion "Server Settings". So:

Change 1: Change left pane 'Server' name to 'Server Settings'. Change 2: Change the mouse over text from 'Settings' to "Server Settings'

Thoughts?

wayneoutthere avatar Nov 11 '24 05:11 wayneoutthere

Interestingly these two do the same thing as the "Settings" and "Management" menu entries. I think the entire mode-switching of the side menu should be cleaned up.

One should separate between Settings, Management and Maintenance modes. Which section is opened by default when entering these various modes, is less important (could be a user preference), than that there was a mode switch.

So as far as I'm concerned: the Maintenance, Settings and Management entries in the side menu should go away, the hard drive icon should be renamed "Management", the Mixboard "Settings", and then a third icon (e.g. with a wrench) should be added for "Maintenance"

Then all four of these should be placed under the Stalwart Logo, directly above the side menu that gets toggled, leaving the donation and logout buttons where they are, because they are of a distinctly different function category.

The search field could be appropriately larger, too, while we’re at it...

rcfa avatar Jan 07 '25 13:01 rcfa