On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 17:38, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 17:24, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Sergiu,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Devs,
>>>
>>> Inspired by the newly launched W3C website, I'd like to introduce the
>>> possibility to choose the display mode: desktop (the current UI),
>>> print (the current print preview UI) and mobile (a 1-column,
>>> margin-free layout). I'd like to group these options in a new action
>>> menu entry, named DISPLAY (or VIEW) and placed between EDIT and EXPORT
>>> (I can't find a good position, suggestions welcome). In the same menu
>>> we can reintroduce the View Wiki Source feature (
>>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XSCOLIBRI-122 ).
>>>
>>> So basically, the menu changes are:
>>> - new DISPLAY menu, with the options: Desktop, Mobile, Print, Wiki Source
>>> - the chosen display mode (except wiki source) is sticky, meaning that
>>> it will continue to be used for the following page views
>>> - Print Preview disappears from ACTIONS
>>>
>>
>> To me, view code is not a display action: "view code" should look different
>> in desktop, mobile and print view. I'd rather have "view code" in the
>> "Actions" menu.
>
> On one hand, this behaves differently than the other 3 entries in the
> Display menu.
>
> On the other hand, this is not something you DO with the document
> (like rename or delete), but a different way of displaying it, thus I
> strongly think it doesn't belong to the Actions menu, and I moderately
> believe that it belongs in the Display menu.

+1, it has nothing to do in Actions menu, it's not an action.

>
>> About the Display option, I think that would be great. Do you also plan on
>> adding an autodetect based on the user agent?
>
> Kind of, stylesheets already have a "media" attribute that specifies
> for which type of device it should be used. The display menu will just
> "force" one of the stylesheets to be used, regardless of the current
> media, something like:
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" media="all or print"
>
>> Another question: should it be called "Display" or "View" ? "View" sounds
>> maybe a bit more intuitive than "Display" but I don't have a strong pow on
>> this.
>
> I don't know either, but I'm slightly inclined towards "Display".

I prefer "Display" too it sound maybe too technical for basic user.

>
>> I'm +1 about a "Display" or "View" menu entry with Desktop, Mobile and
>> Print.
>>
>> Only potential issue is that it might make the top menu look a bit crowded.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Any objections/comments?
>>>
>>
>> See my remarks above. Great idea overall.
>>
>> Guillaume
>>
>
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