Add Pane relocation....

SamMarrocco

It seems to me (after not being able to find it) that the Add Pane ‘action’ in the bottom left corner of Legend’s screen should be present in a Pane’s “three vertical dot” menu in the upper right of the screen.

While the “Actions” section is good for quick function calls (and should really be expandable by users), intuition says that “Add Pane” should be in the same upper right menu along with it’s six other sister pane functions.

Also, “Close” should really be labeled “Close Pane”. If the menu contains the word “Pane” in some functions but not others, it can be a bit confusing, i.e. “Close what?”, unless there is a header for the menu labeled “Pane Commands” or something similar to make it all explicit..

Jay

I’ve gone back and forth on this for years! I 100% agree that it being in the bottom left corner is super unintuitive, but the problem is that there’s no space at the top right because the rightmost pane is there.

We could tweak the UI to always have a titlebar instead of extending panes all the way to the top? I’ve also played with putting a floating + button in the bottom right, but that felt a little weird.

What do you think?

Also, agreed about “Close Pane” - that will be changed in the next update.

SamMarrocco

Jay
Although having a Titlebar might be handy for any other ‘pending’ features, along with being able to organize functions like “Pane-related” thing together, a simpler short-term solution would be a gentle re-working of the already existing "vertical-three button (hamburger?)"drop down menu in the upper right of every pane. Since it already exists in the upper right of every pane, it seem most intuitive that all pane related controls exists there by default.

I’d suggest (assuming all functions stay pane-specific, along with a header, some spacing for readability and some re-ordering):

Pane Management (inactive header)
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No need to have the word “Pane” appear multiple times as long as the menu/pulldown is dedicated to Pane-related items. Having the “Pane Management” header is a bonus to tell you to what the items all refer. Makes everything simpler/quicker to reads as well.

As an aside–is there a functional different in Legend between using the “Three Horizontal Dots” vs. the “Three Vertical Dots” as a pull-down menu item button? Just wondering if perhaps they should all be made vertical dots as an indication of “row of items in a pull down”. I’m big into intuitiveness 🙂

Jay

Oh oops, I misunderstood what you were saying! I can definitely see the benefit of changing it like that. But I thought you were saying you wanted an “Add New Pane” button in there too? Would that open the same menu to choose pane type as in the Actions section?

SamMarrocco

Jay
BTW, the irony is not lost on me that “Pane Management”, synonymous with Pain Management, would be perfect since the ability to handle Panes is, to me, one of Legend’s best features and eliminates most of the pain I felt when trying to manage an outliner limited to only a single view. 🙂

SamMarrocco

Hah! I was, but I got on such a roll I forgot that the “Add new Pane” was what I was originally looking for!
Here’s a revised menu including that:

Pane Management (inactive header)
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New (This would show the same pane type options you currently have in Actions)
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