[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss jBPM] - Re: Web Console: Context Menus and Navigation

[david.lloyd@jboss.com]

Putting all the context menu items on one line isn't going to work - there's just too much information to make it look nice.

I think that the red "swoosh" is going to have to go.  Just having the logo on the left side, I can make a nice heirarchy of horizontal menus that are above the "main" content area.  I'd like to do it one of two ways: either have the high-level items across the top (process, process instance, task, task instance), with the next layer switching to the appropriate submenu on mouseover or click; or I can have one row per high-level item, with menu options extending to the right.

Personally I think that DHTML menus are annoying because it is rare that they work properly in all browsers (and in this case, I'm willing to settle for IE and Firefox).  But I'd rather do the two-level menu I described above than DHTML/javascript dropdown menus.  Dropdown menus are difficult to implement correctly and can be very obnoxious for users.

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