Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Marta Girdea <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is starting to look really nice, I particularly like the fact that the >> recent changes are displayed in a more comprehensive manner. >> >> I have a few comments though: >> 1/ The two columns look a bit unbalanced. Isn't there some other important >> information the user would like to see on in the dashboard, that could fill >> the empty space? Or maybe we could reduce the number of displayed recent >> changes? > > I think that the average wiki contains more spaces than incubator (way > more in some cases). > You can try to reduce the number of items in recent changes by passing > changesNb=15 in the URL (this variable can be set in the document > too). > >> 2/ There are some scalability problems: on the 'Recent changes' column, if >> the document name is long, 'see modifications' that appears on hover shows >> up on the next row and pushes the rest of the content down, and this is not >> pretty. What could be done is use an icon instead of text, and this way we'd >> have consistency with the 'Spaces' section. > > It's not pretty but I've asked for feedback during the devel process > and since this onhover link vary a lot (link vs. ajax) between items > (page vs. comment) it seemed to be way more comprehensive to write it > and use visual hints (color + [+] and [-]) than to use images. > >> 3/ I don't think the user's avatar is a crucial information to display in >> Recent changes. Also, too few or too many document changes per user will >> result in empty spaces. Maybe reducing the image's size would partly solve >> the problem. > > This is the first negative feedback about avatars, I agree it's not > crucial but it allow to put a face on changes which is a good thing I > think.
Yes, power to people! Avatars makes a big difference in the tool adoption by its users, in my opinion. (And displaying it other places than user own profile encourages people to actually upload their picture). Jerome. > I'm afraid that a lot of avatars will not look pretty with a height > smaller than 60px. > > Thanks, > JV. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
