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Arantor

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Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« on February 13th, 2012, 03:16 PM »
I can't remember if I publicly shared this stuff, (and can't quickly find evidence of having done so) but I thought I'd just show off the main ACP front page again, now that I finally got round to putting images on everything.

It's not really any different in terms of use - the menu is still where you expect everything to be - but this is what you're greeted with on entering the ACP. (see attached)

As I was poking around lately, I did wonder if the front page of each of those sections should be a placeholder of sorts, pointing you at the relevant pages, and the relevant tasks that can be achieved in each area, rather than blindly dropping you into whichever one happened to be first on the list, but that's something to discuss rather than to implement right now.

Most of the rest of the ACP is visually unchanged from SMF's time, even if a lot of changes have occurred as to where things are - but that's what the search feature is for, right? (And it is already better than SMF's, there's more in it than in SMF's, where we've moved things back into the conventional pages rather than in places like theme settings, but there's always more to do with that.)

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #3, on February 13th, 2012, 03:44 PM »
Oddly enough, no, there's a specific reason why plugins is at the bottom - it's the one most likely to be extended in all kinds of hideous ways meaning it can make things disproportionately large.

* Arantor waits to see who notices the design inspiration for this page and whether he'll have to run upon it being noticed.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #4, on February 13th, 2012, 03:59 PM »
Quote from Arantor on February 13th, 2012, 03:44 PM
Oddly enough, no, there's a specific reason why plugins is at the bottom - it's the one most likely to be extended in all kinds of hideous ways meaning it can make things disproportionately large.
Ah, bien. A good point, well made.

And no, I've not yet spotted the design inspiration.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #5, on February 13th, 2012, 04:03 PM »
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And no, I've not yet spotted the design inspiration.
I'll let people mull it over but I will assuredly post a picture of what actually inspired this design in a while.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #8, on February 13th, 2012, 04:13 PM »
It does look a little bit like

(click to show/hide)
cPanel

in a passing sort of way, but that particular package is a hell on Earth.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #10, on February 13th, 2012, 04:46 PM »
Quote from Asgard Dash on February 13th, 2012, 04:43 PM
Looks great Arantor, and I know the inspiration, but won't say as it'd prolly be cheating.  ~_^
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Quote from PantsManUK on February 13th, 2012, 04:13 PM
It does look a little bit like
Well, where I borrowed it from and where cPanel got their mojo from have pretty common heritage... but I'm quite specific as to where I was most influenced by.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #11, on February 13th, 2012, 05:50 PM »
I'm not a fan of having dozens of big icons, myself... It just never really ticked with me.

But I trust that I'm the only one thinking that. I have to think of the majority really ;)

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #12, on February 13th, 2012, 06:15 PM »
Actually Nao, I think we can simply call ourselves a minority.

With this in mind, I must say I think it looks snazzy, and if it lets me do what I need to do I can have no complaints. :)

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #13, on February 13th, 2012, 06:32 PM »
Well, I personally don't bother simply because the menu is still there for me to access my usual areas.
But once the homepage gets to be different from the menu order, it will certainly be an interesting alternative. Maybe we could even allow admins to hide and show and reorder icons manually... Like creating shortcuts to their fave areas..?

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