FAUXTON 2.0.0: Error message hides useful parts too long

[Rainer Glaschick <ra...@g-pb.de>]

For a newbie, who has not yet a solid idea where to find what on the UI, the message at the top hides parts of the screen too long.

E.g., I wante to delete a database and create it anew.

The message that the deletion was successful stays for more than 5 seconds at the top, hiding the button to create a new database, and made me search elsewherer. The Message pane has exactly the same size as the top panel,and a newbie like me will not suspect any useful widgets below.

Note that the deletion has to be acknowledged by a small panel in a black window that hides the original screen, so there is no image of the previous screen the user can remember, when the screen with the message on top returns.

Possible actions:

- make the message (partially) transparent; however, this reduces contrast and is not optimal.

- overlay not the top panel, but the panel with the list of databases. 

- the confirmation popup only blacks out the panel with the list of databases.


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Rainer Glachick, Paderborn, Germany

Re: FAUXTON 2.0.0: Error message hides useful parts too long

[Garren Smith <ga...@apache.org>]

Hi Rainer,

Some great ideas here. I do think the notifications could be improved.
Would you like to help us fix them?

Cheers
Garren

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 at 1:49 PM Rainer Glaschick <ra...@g-pb.de> wrote:

> For a newbie, who has not yet a solid idea where to find what on the UI,
> the message at the top hides parts of the screen too long.
>
> E.g., I wante to delete a database and create it anew.
>
> The message that the deletion was successful stays for more than 5 seconds
> at the top, hiding the button to create a new database, and made me search
> elsewherer. The Message pane has exactly the same size as the top panel,and
> a newbie like me will not suspect any useful widgets below.
>
> Note that the deletion has to be acknowledged by a small panel in a black
> window that hides the original screen, so there is no image of the previous
> screen the user can remember, when the screen with the message on top
> returns.
>
> Possible actions:
>
> - make the message (partially) transparent; however, this reduces contrast
> and is not optimal.
>
> - overlay not the top panel, but the panel with the list of databases.
>
> - the confirmation popup only blacks out the panel with the list of
> databases.
>
>
> --
> Rainer Glachick, Paderborn, Germany
>
>