On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Anca Paula Luca wrote: > Anca Paula Luca wrote: >> Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: >>> Vincent Massol wrote: >>>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> The last proposal for links management in the wysiwyg editor can >>>>> be >>>>> found here : >>>>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface/wysiwyg%2Dsuite.pdf >>>> Sounds nice. Some comments: >>>> >>>> * The link menu items should be improved IMO: >>>> - I would put adding an external link at the bottom since it's not >>>> the most used one >>>> - The labels should be improved. I don't know if "wanted page" is >>>> obvious (it wasn't for me) >>>> * The screenshots are missing wiki selection (for multi wiki >>>> installs) >>>> * I'm not sure I like the wizard like approach, i.e. having to >>>> select >>>> some value before selecting others. I think I would have >>>> preferred a >>>> single screen but that's me only. >>> I'm not into the wizard approach also. One reason is indeed the fact >>> that I have to step through 3 dialogs or so in order to insert an >>> internal link. Another reason is that the solution with extended >>> lists >>> is not scalable at all. The Main space on xwiki.org has more than >>> 100 >>> pages (I discovered this after I killed next.dev.curriki by trying >>> to >>> view the space index for XWiki space..) so scrolling through these >>> 100 >>> pages is a pain. Why not using filterable combo boxes? >> >> Wizards seem indeed a little too much, at least the way I see >> things, that the >> link should be something quite fast to add.
Yep me too >> I was thinking about suggest boxes >> since *the user should know already something about where he wants >> to link*. He >> will very very very rarely need to see *all* pages / spaces to >> choose one (it's >> not like he's picking randomly!) >> >> My extreme approach for this would be a suggest in which the user >> would write >> something like: >> <wikiName>:<SpaceName>.<PageName> >> and he would have suggestions for each of the 3 fields. I agree that's too cryptic and the several suggest boxes ideas is better. >> Now I am very aware that this might seem cryptic for a lot of users >> so just 3 >> suggest fields could do it. This can also help with: >> * not loading the whole list of spaces / pages, since we could load >> suggestions >> only after we got some hints from the user (the first letter, for >> example) >> * allowing the user to insert a page that does not exist in the >> same input as an >> existing page/space, thus transparently creating a link to a new >> page (I'm not >> really sure we want that, though) > > Forgot to mention, suggest boxes is almost the same thing as the > filterable > combo boxes, in the end, something that would allow you to type and > see the > matches for what you type, but also show you the whole list if you > really, > really want to see it. Yes I'm +1 for that (suggest fields + list below as it's done for the RMUI). Basically as it was proposed by Guillaume initially. Thanks -Vincent >> Happy coding, >> Anca Luca >> >>>> * It's missing the ability to specify any number of parameters (for >>>> advanced usages) >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
