[wp-testers] New Navigation. A bit of a fluke!

[Kirk M]

Gee, it only took me about 20 secs to find those double arrows...and I'm 
old. :D

On 10/15/2008 4:27 AM, Jeff Chandler wrote:
> When I initially installed WordPress 2.7 trunk on my local server, I 
> was immediately taken back by the side menu and thought it had been 
> replace by icons. Only after 5 minutes of playing around did I notice 
> the double arrow icon which extended the menu. I'm glad for that as I 
> wouldn't want to memorize what each icon did.
>
> Ben Huson wrote:
>> Now that the new navigation has taken shape I think it works quite 
>> well - I
>> wasn't initially sure about the change to a vertical nav but having 
>> used it
>> I now prefer it.
>> I like the way the menus open and close vertically, however I have a
>> comment:
>>
>> Sometimes it is nice that you can have two menus open at the same time,
>> however I can foresee that this may become slightly annoying if you 
>> can a
>> few menus open at the time time, having to scroll up and down. Should 
>> there
>> be a setting so that when you click a menu it closes other open 
>> menus? That
>> way the user could select how they would prefer the menu to work...
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>> 2008/10/15 Christopher Tran <ndcx.ctran at yahoo.com>
>>
>>> Does anyone know where I can get 2.7?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Oct 14, 2008, at 10:09 PM, "Musing Minds" <kimsch at musing-minds.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> WP-SpamFree is a great plugin for anti-spam. I really don't see any 
>>> anymore
>>> with this plugin. Works with 2.7!
>>> http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
>>> [mailto:wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of 
>>> brooklynne
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:54 PM
>>> To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
>>> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] New Navigation. A bit of a fluke!
>>>
>>> I personally love the new admin navigation so much easier and intuitive
>>> fo rme to use, I can easily find the things I'm looking for and it
>>> actually encourages me to blog more, the only thing I don't like is 
>>> that
>>> it doesn't show me my spam queue via askimet in the main dashboard
>>> overview... I have to goto comment moderation which is a pain because I
>>> get about 30 spam messages a day!
>>>
>>>
>>> Hadeel Hejja wrote:
>>> This is Dooleh, a newbie in the world of wordpress beta testers. I 
>>> am not
>>> going to be all technical about this, but I really dislike the new
>>> navigation. At first, I thought the navigation disappeared when I 
>>> upgraded.
>>> No, it was just in a hidden AJAX-type mechanism. The little separations
>>> between the dashboard and other parts of the admin menu are awkward.  I
>>> liked how the menu looked before the update. Just an opinion, 
>>> because this
>>> one is much more cluttered. Love the little icons, though!
>>>
>>> P.S. Whenever I open one of the main links, like Dashboard, the 
>>> subpages
>>> don't go up. THey stay there and make me have to scroll to navigate. 
>>> Very
>>> annoying, I might say.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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