I can accept your arguments ;)

Just one remark: have you tested on IE6 (yes, I still have that on my PC :))
? This is not exactly the same nice page :)

regards
Pascal

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Jean-Vincent Drean
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Pascal Voitot
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Nice job!
> > my remarks:
> > - I think also the "recent changes" section is a bit "oversized" compared
> to
> > the others sections because when you open the page, you only see this at
> > first sight.
>
> I think that looking at the recent changes at first sight is a good thing
> :)
> The dashboard is a bunch of divs with some includes, it can be
> customized very easily.
>
> > - The number of items in recent changes should be reduced (it is already
> > possible as you said in a previous mail) so that the recent changes is
> not
> > too tall compared to Spaces+Tags and so that you can guess there are
> other
> > contents below recent changes without scrolling too much.
>
> The content bellow dashboard was a leftover, I've cleaned it.
> About recent changes number of items I think 30 is not that big, may
> be we should add other infos on the left so that a new wiki dashboard
> doesn't look that unbalanced (as Ludovic suggested in the comments).
>
> Also note that the average wiki contains way more space than
> incubator, 30/40+ spaces is common.
>
> > - Maybe default height for one recent change could be reduced a bit by
> > putting the name just beside the photo for example... I like this size of
> > photo...
>
> I've reduced the height of the avatars to 40px on incubator yesterday
> to show how it looks, the original size was 60px. Putting the name
> beside the avatar could be nice but it won't look pretty with long
> names (take mine for example ;).
>
> > - considering balance, I would prefer a smaller column for recent
> changes...
> > not 50/50 but 60/40 for example... this is a personal opinion :)
>
> The current balance is 60/40, rationale:
>  - Give room to the supposed most important part of the dashboard.
>  - Space names are rarely long, otoh pages names often are.
>  - Recent changes panel holds more info/img/links and even expandable
> comment areas, they technically need more space.
>
> Thanks,
> JV.
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