Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Sergiu, > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Vincent Massol wrote: >>> On May 31, 2009, at 9:54 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: >>> >>>> Hello devs, >>>> >>>> I'd like to reorganize the document footer as depicted in >>>> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/DocumentFooter , >>>> namely: >>>> >>>> 1: Tags will be displayed after the document content, as links to tag >>>> pages, and not in an input element in the Information tab as they are >>>> now. They are still editable in view mode by clicking an edit button >>>> available after the tags list. >>> Shouldn't tags be more visible and displayed before the doc content >>> instead? >> I don't think this is a good idea. I've never seen any application >> giving tags more importance than the content itself (and considering >> that until recently tags were not displayed at all, putting them in the >> footer is already a big improvement). >> >>> If not, then I think we should add a "View/Edit tags" entry in the >>> action menu, same as what we have for comments, attachments, etc >> You mean the "Show" menu? >> >>>> 2. The "Created by ... on ..." information about the document will be >>>> displayed before "Last modified by...", under the document content, >>>> and >>>> not down in the page footer, where it seems ambiguous (seems to be >>>> referring to the whole wiki), nor in the Information tab. >>> +1 >>> >>>> 3. The "Information" tab becomes "Related documents", since it does >>>> not >>>> contain the tags and the creator anymore. The related documents are: >>>> * parent (editable in view mode by the same mechanism as the tags) >>>> * children >>>> * included documents >>>> * links and backlinks >>> +1 >>> >>>> 4. A new "Rights" tab is displayed for admins after "Related pages", >>>> basically providing the rights management UI. >>> +1 although I don't think it's just for admins. It should be to anyone >>> having the rights to change the rights (ie edit rights). However it >>> should probably not be displayed in simple mode (only in advanced mode). >> Yes, that's what I meant. >> >>> Does it mean anything for the edit panel? Does it mean edit mode will >>> be only for editing the content, objects and class? Do we keep both? >>> (same question for the history and tags/parent). >> Hm, interesting you asked this. Actually this change was a step towards >> a larger reorganization of the UI, with the final goal of eliminating >> the edit mode completely. But more on this later. > > > Sound exciting :-) I'm eager to learn more about this one. > > Btw, you might want to talk about it with JV since he worked on ideas to > merge the inline + edit mode. I guess what you have in mind is an AJAXy > edit-in-place where one or multiple editors show up instead of the textarea > + input fields on a given page while the panels stay where they are... If we > have a default template it would work with objects too.
Something like that, yes. > Wonder what happens to XClass edition and used yet not-exposed XObject > properties in such a scenario though... Food for thought for later I guess. Class editing will be moved completely to the Document Type Manager/Designer. The fact that documents contain class definitions is a technical detail that should not influence the way the user interacts with the document. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
