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2017-04-01 10:26 AEST by Arthur Barrett - Change 'read only' view of control panel.
Instead of showing all the same things, but disabled (which in the case of 'plugins' doesn't really work at all),
show a completely different screen designed as a 'read only' view.
Then the 'change settings' button closes that screen and opens the 'old' screen, and the 'change settings'
button can be 'hidden' entirely (rather than disabled).
The current behaviour is logical, and mimics the Apple design of control panels - but windows control panels
don't work that way - and in an interaction with a customer today, it was clearly very confusing for them: as
long as the 'change settings' button remained grey they thought they couldn't change the settings. The
'disabled' button is not the same as the 'unlocked' button in MacOS X.
This should be a 'minor' change, but probably made to Suite 2.8.02 rather than 2.8.01 - but it's optional -
could be either. Designing and implementing a 'read only' screen should be pretty easy and low risk.
For this customer - they wouldn't even 'see' the read-only screen, since they started the control panel
elevated anyway (but the new elevated control panel should ditch the 'change settings' button).
Related changes:
Bug 4916 - Improved "support" tab in control panel
Bug 6096 - enh: server: win: control panel should be registered in categories
Bug 6097 - enh: server: win: Create Searchable Task Links for control panel
Bug 6636 - enh: server: win: control panel - future direction |