On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Greg Von Kuster <greg@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
I have previously commented on the problem with showing the "description" on its own without the context of the tool name as displayed in Galaxy:
http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2011-June/005640.html
and:
http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2010-December/004012.html http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2010-December/004017.html http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2010-December/004019.html
One idea would be to show just the name in the left hand pane of Galaxy, with the description as a tool tip AND show this at the top of the tool main page in the central panel. This would encourage tool authors to write this field as a self contained synopsis, and make the left hand panel less text heavy.
This may be considered for the Galaxy instance (the decision is in the hands of others), but would probably not work in the tool shed. Again, we'll see what we can improve as I make progress on the repository metadata implementation.
Sorry if that was unclear, I did mean the main Galaxy interface there. Peter