Dashbard UX enhancement suggestions

[d19dotca]

@nebulon said in Dashbard UX enhancement suggestions:

just be shown on hover

This is probably totally fine since this likely wouldn't be used too often anyways where people need to check which login type it is, but just a friendly reminder that "hover" doesn't really exist for mobile devices. Ideally whatever is done would be mobile-friendly too. Not all users will use desktops to login quickly to a web app.

[girish]

login indicator is an excellent suggestion! I prefer it to be always shown instead on hover. (I don't like the current settings icon hover either... but that's a separate topic).

[imc67]

@girish but please make sure that it also works on tablets like an iPad Pro because currently it's almost impossible to use the Dashboard on an iPad as the "hover icons" are not visible (and you can't hover on a tough device) and after struggling when you do see them they are much much to small

[marcusquinn]

Given that these icons (username/email/auth) are just visual but not clickable, may I suggest a ... icon in the top right that is clickable/tappable as a context menu for config/logs/info/url instead of the rollover icons?

Screenshot from WebCatalog, just as an example of the top-right area idea:

[marcusquinn]

Eg:

[marcusquinn]

For interest, I name Apps like this, so they are sort of self-explanatory:

[imc67]

@marcusquinn great, I do something similar and add "My" in front of the name when it is LDAP, so the user know it can login with same credentials (but here is the thing like mentioned before, sometimes with username and sometimes with full email address).

[BrutalBirdie]

@marcusquinn Ah yes the self-explanatory ...

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app.

Mine is even worse:

[marcusquinn]

@imc67 Nice. I have been using the Rocket Chat home page as a one-page reference documentation for all other app explanations and things like that.

[marcusquinn]

@brutalbirdie Edited for a teeny bit of client privacy. Clever birdie

[BrutalBirdie]

@marcusquinn Figures
I was just reading the names and then the . struck me.
Love It.

[marcusquinn]

@hexbin Any thoughts on icons for those apps with 2FA enabled too perhaps? Maybe a superscript 2? Eg:

²

[infogulch]

I like superscript text generators for these things: ²ᶠᵃ

[A Former User]

While we're discussing UI changes. Perhaps a Play/Stop button to start/stop the server and a restart button here?

I do find it counterintuitive that it is buried. I get that doing this avoids mis-clicks but this could be alleviated with a confirmation popup for these actions.

[MooCloud_Matt]

@atrilahiji said in Dashbard UX enhancement suggestions:

Perhaps a Play/Stop button to start/stop the server and a restart button here?

+1

[nebulon]

@atrilahiji some time back we have thought of this actually, back then though it wasn't quite clear to us if this is a common thing to do or not. I am still not sure about the use-case for starting and stopping apps frequently, but maybe I just don't have that. Adding such a button is easy enough if many users find that useful.

[A Former User]

@nebulon I can't speak for others but I frequently change config values and restart apps. Not just for EleutheriaPay but a couple other apps require this to pick up config changes. Gitea for example. As for starting and stopping, I have multiple minecraft servers I host but they often don't need to be on all the time, so I turn them off from time to time to save on resources.

[hexbin]

Oh my, there we've got something
So many good ideas, this community is awesome!

I love @marcusquinn's dot menu suggestion. If that is accessible for all roles we can keep the tiles largely free from clutter. If it's only for admins we should list separately what should must find a place on the tile.

As to the 2FA idea, of course we can find an icon to reflect that (I've been using fontawesome icons for the wireframe because the font is already in use - but I cannot find any suitable icon there).

Before we get to that: are there any apps that require 2FA by default? I only know of those with optional settings. Digging that deep would mean that we'd eventually have to pick the icons to display, right?

[hexbin]

@girish said in Dashbard UX enhancement suggestions:

[...] (I don't like the current settings icon hover either... but that's a separate topic).

Give me a little more background information on how it's built (or a link to that separate topic), maybe I can help (with expertise in UX, CSS, accessibility).

[d19dotca]

@nebulon I agree with @atrilahiji's use-case, and is the same for me in most cases too. I may make a change in an app (usually WordPress) in a file that may only get read on boot, therefore for the settings to take effect I need to restart the app so the changes are recognized. Sometimes it's also nice to just have a "clean start" of the app to at least sanity-check / rule out items when troubleshooting (such as caching and other areas depending on the app).