I wasn't sure if I should post these in Trac, so I'm posting them here first. If these problems have already been addressed, please forgive my oblivion. If somebody could report back to me on these things as far as reporting these bugs to Trac, I would be more than willing to post them. Thanks in advance!
- First picture of an album should not display the 'Previous' button. The same goes for the last picture in an album and album navigation pages.
- Wherever there is as form submission, you are able to click the button multiple times, and each time you press the button, an extra status message appears on subsequent page refreshes. I captured a screenshot displaying this phenomenon below. I think this could be fixed by allowing the user to only press the submit button once instead of multiple times.
[img]http://gallery.menalto.com/files/screenshot_19.jpg[/img]
- When viewing videos, the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons appear if they are getting stylized incorrectly (they both appear on the left hand side on top of each other). As well, the action icons on the right hand side above 'Photo Info' block do not appear.
- Comment input area should dynamically expand to the amount of text a user inputs, up to a point. Say, after 20-25 lines, the input box would no longer expand. I'm also pretty sure the the jQuery UI supports this (maybe, I only vaguely remember reading something about that).
- If an album or picture has never been viewed, the thumbnail navigation should leave an empty line break or something where the 'Views: 1000' would usually go. I only mention this because the thumbnails looks a little off when one album/picture has views and the one next to it has no views (just a little more aesthetically pleasing).
- Whenever a status message appears, I think it would look a little better if the background color and icon fade out instead of in (such as in WordPress-style status messages).
- In the admin dashboard, the 'Recent Comments' block should link to the comment, or at least give info about which picture the comment is associated with.
- In the file admin_block_platform.html.php (gallery3/modules/gallery/views/admin_block_platform.html.php), the PHP_OS constant on line 4 should be replaced with 'php_uname("s")'. This is because PHP_OS reports which operating system PHP was compiled on, not which operating system PHP is running on (like 'php_uname("s")' does).
- Blank albums should display a default generic icon, like the generic movie icon (if ffmpeg can't produce a thumbnail), if no pictures have been added to that album yet.
- For the permissions UI, I know that it might overcrowd stuff, but having an additional button next to each permission area to inherit permissions would be nice. I know that some people might not realize that clicking the 'allow' or 'deny' icon twice will set the album/picture to inherit permissions, although maybe the tooltip is sufficient.
- When viewing any picture in an album, the RSS feed in the <head> tag should contain the feed for the parent album, not the picture itself.
Hopefully these are legitimate fixes/bugs/errors that can be reproduced.
I'm running my own wamp stack with Windows XP Pro SP3, Apache 2.2.11 (from apache.org), PHP 5.3.0 VC6, and MySQL 5.1.36 with strict mode off. Everything is run from VMware Workstation 6.5.2 with NAT networking.
Posted: Fri, 2009-07-17 18:24
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I found a jQuery plugin for an auto expanding textarea. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/autogrow
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This is all excellent feedback, and I'm sure our UX team would be happy to hear about it. Would you be willing to file a ticket for each of these separately? That would be a great help to us. Thanks!
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No problem bharat! I'll file these ASAP.
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Thanks!
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