Move Views Display menu into line with Display names [#1118654]

I'm not sure how to best describe this, but the individual display menu feels naturally "out of place". Because the "displays" bar area is grey, we scan across it for options. The way Views 3x is visually structured, we have to scan across & down to find the display settings.
In my opinion, it would be more natural to users if the "View menu" were somewhere in the top of the screen (as my attached image shows), and the "Display menu" were in this grey bar.

I would be interested to see what other users of Views 3.x think about this.

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Comments

Comment #1

merlinofchaos commented 6 April 2011 at 23:16

Hm. I'm not sure I agree about the naturalness of that, but I'll let Jeff Noyes comment.

Comment #2

Noyz commented 13 April 2011 at 19:52

I agree with Merlin. While I agree there might be a problem here, i don't think this is the solution.

The design originally put a lot of emphasis on closing up the query so that people could work on the display. While this is the way that it is in Gardens, Merlin didn't want to do that to the actual release (possibly a smart move on his part). That said, this collapsing is the reason why we:

1) show the display name in a pill
2) repeat the display name in a collapsible fields set.
3) repeat the display name underneath the collapse trigger.

https://skitch.com/jeff.noyes/r4yu1/views-7x-3x-display-ux.jpg-1202x406

All of which creates for redundancy. I think the true solution lies in reducing some of the redundancy, and possibly placing the "individual display settings" underneath the pill.

https://skitch.com/jeff.noyes/r4yw2/views-7x-3x-display-ux.jpg-1202x406

This solution however assumes the collapsing of the query is removed, which I'd prefer not do. I'd like to come up with a solution that solves both