On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I personally like Marta's suggestion a lot (that's definitely be the > > one I > > would use) and I think providing it to users would be cool. However > > displaying both input methods on the same page might look clunky. > > > > What we could do is to take advantage of XWiki's simple user / > > advanced user > > feature: we could display the full graphical interface for simple > > user and > > the quick input one for advanced users, or maybe have 2 tabs with > > the simple > > one selected for simple users and the advanced one selected for > > advanced > > users when they click on the "add link" button. > > > > WDYT? > > No sure. I thought about this too a few days ago but I thought it > would be too "magical" and as an advanced user I might want to use the > navigation part too. I don't know so I would say +0. > > Thanks > -Vincent Indeed, everybody should have the right to choose. We can anticipate the fact that a simple user will prefer the navigation part, and an advanced user will prefer to simply type the path, but we shouldn't forbit them the access to the other option. This is why I mentioned that the browsing part should be collapsed for advanced users. It would be solmething like this: - for advanced users: =========================================== Page (or a better label):[ --- the input --- ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Browse >> =========================================== - for simple users: =========================================== Page (or a better label):[ --- the input --- ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Browse wikis spaces pages attachments ---- --- --- ---- =========================================== The advanced user will see the input and use it. In case he's not sure, he will expand the browsing area and start searching. For the simple user, the browsing part is much more visible than the input, and will attract the user's attention. Note that the input takes very little space and will practically be no bother. For simple users, the dialog will look basically like any desktop file browser, which should be pretty familiar. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
