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

[wtff]

First of all: the layout mockups posted by you guys are awesome. Cannot wait to see "jboss portal 2.6 released today" flickering across some news ticker

It would be a nice feature if it was possible to define page layouts that go beyond the classical column based layouts. I imagine to have a page layout designer whose widgets resemble java layout manager. E.g flow layout but especially a border layout and absolute layouts which stay an an absolute screen position.
Each region of a layout manager can be assigned a name and then the complete layout template could be saved.
Then, to wire portlet instances to a page layout, they only would have to be assigned a region name.
I know that the wiring by region-name is already present but  don't know whether what I have described above would be possible.
Especiially, a page layout designer UI would be breathtaking because I would like to see that portal frameworks go beyond the classical choices of two column or three column layouts.

What I'd like to be able to do is for example to have a column layout at the center of the page.
At the top I'd reserve two regions for a drop down navigation menu and tabs. At the bottom I would maybe like to have an absolute region which doesn't move with vertiical scrolls into which I could add a task-bar, for example using the Tomahawk Fsheye navigation menu.
It would be cool to show people that JBoss portal goes beyond the classical portal metaphors.

With this in mind I think that I would rather not use a dhtml foldout for layout selection but rather to grant a full page region to this dialog. The complexity of such a dialog can expand and a foldout might start to look a little overloaded in the end, if people start adding their own customized layout schemes.

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