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v20 v21 3 3 = Trac User Interface Guidelines 4 4 5 == Navigation5 == Introduction 6 6 7 ''These guidelines aren't official. This document is an analysis and a proposal initially written by ChristopherLenz, and is open to comments and suggestions from the community.'' 7 This document is an analysis and a proposal for adding consistency between module navigation and local navigation. This proposal was drafted by ChristopherLenz and is open to comments and suggestions from the community. These guidelines aren't official. 8 8 9 == =Current Situation9 == Current Situation 10 10 11 11 While the navigation interface provided by Trac is in general clean and minimalistic, some problems of redundancy and inconsistency can be identified. The goal of this proposal is to clean-up and unify the navigation interface, and ultimately to establish guidelines for how Trac modules should hook into the navigation, so that they integrate nicely with the rest of the system. … … 42 42 When viewing the list of available reports, two module navigation links are available: ''Available Reports'' and ''Custom Query''. Both remain available when opening a specific report. However, when viewing the report list or the custom query, only the ''alternative'' view remains selectable. 43 43 44 === Conclusion 45 46 As noted in the introduction, the navigation story in Trac is inconsistent especially when it comes to differentiating between module navigation and local navigation. 47 48 === Possible Solutions 44 == Possible Solutions 49 45 50 46 For usability purposes there is a need to fix these inconsistencies in the navigation. Apart from layout details, such as the different look of local navigation links in the browser than in the reports module, there are a basically two drastically different options: