Vincent Massol wrote: > On Aug 10, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Ecaterina Valica wrote: > >>> What I'd like actually is not the actual content on top of course but >>> an easy way to navigate to that content (info, attachments, comments, >>> etc). >> >> Right now you have an easy way to navigate to that content by using >> "Show" >> in the action menu (links to Comments, Attachments, History, >> Information). >> The problem with this submenu is that it's not intuitive and not well >> placed. We have many actions in it and we don't know what are >> important and >> what are helpfull. And here comes the discussions about redesigning >> the >> information architecture in the menu. > > I agree. > >>> Right now we kind of have this already with the action toolbar but I >>> have the feeling it can be improved and it doesn't have a link to the >>> page info for example. >>> >>> Here's a example: >>> >>> http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+2.8+Screen+and+Menu+Changes >>> >>> If you're logged in then the Tools menu has more actions. >>> >>> - One think I like is the link to view the latest change directly at >>> the top (in the line that says who was the last modifier). >>> - Another nice thing is the little icon showing the attachment and >>> the >>> number of attachments >>> >>> FOSWiki also does it with icons and I don't feel they're standing in >>> the way of the content: >>> http://foswiki.org/ >>> >> The bad things about the examples is that they take you to other >> page to >> show you that information and I don't like that. They take away the >> context. > > I agree but then it's also a question of how much you have to display. > If you look at the info page for confluence you'll see it has a lot of > information in it.
And that is bad in two ways. - I think that we display more information than they do, so they're not better than us - Personally, I think that their interface sucks big time. There is no clear separation of the content. Everything is a big heap of text, all looking the same, so it's hard to spot something in there. This shows the true value of using margins and paddings correctly. So they are much worse than us. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
