On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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). > I agree, that's why I didn't suggest removing the avatars, just making them smaller. This wasn't negative feedback on the avatars, but a comment on the fact that they are way too visible comparing to the rest (at least on my display). > 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
