Hi Sergiu,

First of all, thanks for the proposal. I know how busy you are. See my 
notes below.

Sergiu Dumitriu 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.
>> * It's missing the ability to specify any number of parameters (for  
>> advanced usages)
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
> 
> How about this interface:
> 
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface/ui.zip/default.png
> 
> This works a bit like the way the Mac file explorer works. By default,
> when creating or editing a link, the current wiki/space/document are
> selected. If the user clicks on a different wiki, space or anchor, the
> descending columns are cleared, and a "loading" message is displayed,
> like in:
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface/ui.zip/loading.png

In Guillaume's proposal the user is able to insert a link to a space 
directly without selecting the WebHome page (same for a wiki, without 
selecting the Main space and the WebHome page). How is this achievable 
in your design? I guess there could be a button at the bottom of each 
list or maybe the user could double click on a list item.

> 
> For links to non-existing documents ("wanted"), under spaces and
> documents a custom input box can be displayed, as in:
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface/ui.zip/custom.png
> 
> The list of spaces/documents is populated on display, like the RMUI
> tables. Above the list, a "Displaying S-E out of T" message is displayed
> only when the list does not fit in one page.

But the list of pages doesn't seem to be 'paginated'. I'm afraid of what 
could happen if there are a lot of pages (like hundreds). I guess we 
should look for a smart list that loads only the visible items.

> 
> The anchor column can be used to link to a document section (should we
> display sections from the saved document, or from the edited document if
> the selected document is the currently edited one?), to an attachment,
> or to a comment. Custom ID means entering in an input box a custom ID,
> without any checks if such an element exists or not. Should we also have
> a "page section" which allows to choose between the content area,
> comments, attachments, history?
> 
> Each column can be filtered by entering some text in the respective box:
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface/ui.zip/filter.png
> 
> Besides the "Simple" view, there's also the advanced view, and the
> "additional params" view.
> 
> The params view allows customizing the link, by entering target, rel,
> class and id attributes:
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface/ui.zip/params.png
> 
> For the advanced view I don't have screenshots, but it could contain the
> suggest input boxes for wiki, space and document name, and some way of
> selecting a custom action (view, edit, cancel, ssx...), a custom version
> from the history, a query string.
> 
> 
> Sorry for the raw aspect of the drawings.

I'm also worried about the horizontal layout. In some cases (I suspect 
Watch) space and page names could be really long. I've noticed you cut 
the long names and added "..." to avoid horizontal scroll. Even with a 
tool tip showing the full name this might still be annoying for some users.

Marius
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