a frog would improve usability of transit slip

[James Fournie]

Currently in at least 1.6 and 2.0, there are two dialogs in the checkin screen which are very similar, the "ROUTE TO HOLDS SHELF" and "ROUTE TO OTHER LIBRARY". They both feature a turtle.

Generally, routing to holds shelf vs routing to another library is a totally different action, and so for maximum usability, they should have different images which are differently shaped and/or different colors so that staff can quickly identify what action to take.

Sitka patched this some time ago, changing the turtle to a frog image for a branch transit dialog. (The idea being that the holds shelf is much closer and a turtle walks slowly whereas the transit involves "hopping" to another branch much like a frog hops along lilypads or what-have-you.) The image we used is attached and can be credited to the staff at Gibsons Public Library, but ideally, I would suggest that the original designer of the turtle could lend their artistic skills towards a frog.

Additionally, a third animal should be used for reservations, perhaps a duck.

I have not attached a code patch because the patch is trivial and dependent on the image filenames, but I can indicate the following lines in trunk which would ideally be adjusted:

Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/server/circ/util.js

hold slip: line 2771
reservation slip: line 2919
transit slip: line 3161

[Deana Cunningham (deana-cunningham)]

We have the same problem with holds, transit/holds and straight transits. Code found on this and other sites allowed out in house IT staff to change our old server, but Equinox says this is a situation that requires a bug report, so here we are.

Please fix this! Busy staff at public service desks need a visual reminder to process each of these types of items differently!

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

I'm going to mark this bug as a duplicate of Bug 1229757. Although a frog was never added, we do now have distinct images for holds, transit, and reservation slips.