I've discussed it a bit with Guillaume and here are some ideas: * In the same manner that we have simple/advanced mode for view mode (user type) we could also have the same for the edit mode. * The simple edit mode would be an inplace editing mode where the page doesn't reload and the user is shown with an edit box for title/content (still to be decided for the parent). There would be a button to switch to advanced edit mode. * The advanced edit mode would be similar to the current edit mode, i.e panels on the left removed and panels on the right replaced by advanced edit panels, ie: included docs, syntax change, language translations, other metadata changes, etc. There would be a button to swtich to simple edit mode. * Basically the idea is to do what all tools do when there's not mandatory options to display, ie create an inspector/panel/dialog box to move non mandatory stuff out of the main view.
WDYT? Others: * I don't really have a pb with the other editors (object/class). * For the class editor, I'd put the class properties as vertical tabs instead so that opening a property doesn't hide the others from the view (ie no accordion). Thanks -Vincent On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > Hi devs, > > We've been working on improving the editors (content, class, object), > and now I have some pretty important UI changes to commit, but not > everybody seems to agree with them, so I bring up a vote. > > The whole improvements can be seen on > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/ImprovedEdit > > Here are the individual voted points: > > 0 Remove all panels in edit mode > > 1a Parent and title above the content in wiki/wysiwyg mode > > 1b The same style in edit mode as in view mode for the parent/title fields > > 1c AJAX Suggest for the parent field > > 2a New label for the content textarea ("Content") > > 2b List of included documents after the Content label > > 3a Syntax switcher in the top right corner of the content > > 3b Syntax help in the top right corner of the content > > 3c Syntax help and switcher only in the wiki editor > > 4 Better label for the version comment > > 5a Right float the Minor edit field > > 5b Put the Minor edit label after the checkbox > > 6 Move autosave in line with the submit buttons > > 7 Introduce new AJAX-powered Add Object > i) above the objects > ii) bellow the objects > > 8 Introduce new AJAX-powered Add Object from this class > i) at the top of the list of existing objects > ii) at the end of the list > > 9 Move the class switcher in the top right corner > > 9b Remove the class switcher > > 10 Introduce new AJAX-powered Add Property > i) at the top of the list of properties > ii) at the end of the list > > > I vote +1 for all of the above, except 9b (-0), and with options 7i), > 8ii), and 10ii) > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
