[jboss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: User Input Req for 2.6 Usability and UI enhancements

[dhartford]

The column layouts are great and used in many portals.  Some implementations that I recall also had the concept of 'wide' and 'narrow' column widths and allowing a portlet to pre-define itself as a 'wide' portlet or a 'narrow' portlet to coincide with the layout.

By allowing the layout identifers like column width and allowing portlet designers to pre-define the expected size/scale of their portlet will allow users to auto-render their own page much quicker, simpler, and more effectively (with probably better results).

I would even borrow from some of the desktop UI's the 'docklet' idea of small,  square portlets with just minimal graphical or textual information (i.e. CPU usage, mem, have-new-mail, network latency, etc).

So, to summarize: Column width identifers for layout managers and allowing portlet designers to pre-define their portlet's intended width.

---narrow--- ------wide------- -docklet-


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