[wp-design] Quick Symphony Impressions

[khaled Abou Alfa]

First impression I got was that this is very close to Mint in it's
asthetics. I agree with Mike, there hasn't been much action on this list (I
appologise for my lack of contribution right now, but I've been seriously
under the gun at work and outside work everything going pretty crazy as
well. I think the term bite more than I can chew comes to mind).

Is the new WP going to have that little feature of popping up that a new
update has been released?

On 12/7/05, Bryan Veloso <bryan at avalonstar.com> wrote:
>
> All I gotta say (I really haven't taken a look at it yet), is that they
> really have to learn what colors go on a white background.
> _______________________________________
> *Bryan Veloso*
> http://www.avalonstar.com
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Michael Heilemann wrote:
>
> Well I'm not overwhelmed, but it's a nice piece of design. It feels
> very solid, and they really understood KISS.
>
> I still can't STAND their attitude (behold, symphony. Yeah right!),
> and I think I'll have to blog about that.
>
> But the search icon, which brings up a search anywhere in the admin is
> nice. As is the 'create new post on date' thingie. In fact, the date
> selector is something WP could really use.
>
> When you're viewing categories, you select them by selecting the <li>.
> That is _great_. I hate checkboxes. They're so counter-Fitts Law...
>
> Also it doesn't open up on a dashboard. Which I really like, and which
> I'll take into consideration when I start doing some work on the
> dashboard tonight. Instead, community news are available in another
> tab, along with support and petitions (good idea, is going to be kinda
> interesting to see how they'll follow through on that).
>
> I hate their tab names. Campfire. Blueprints. Who the hell has ANY
> idea what that is?
>
> Their settings and options are too spread out. There's no single place
> you can go to quickly access everything, like in WordPress. (Though WP
> could do with some unification on where exactly plugins are supposed
> to throw their options panels).
>
> File Manager. ++! WP definitely needs this. And it should upload in
> the same elegant way that gmail does it. IMHO.
>
> I don't know if http://demo.symphony21.com/ is their default template,
> if it is: HURTS MY EYES!
>
> It's very hard to know what the 'refresh' icon in the top right corner
> does... It just says 'no new information'.
>
> And that's all I have to say about that. For now.
>
> --
> Aloha,
> Michael Heilemann
> http://binarybonsai.com
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