On 02/11/2010 03:43 AM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote: > The problem: > When a new wiki administrator uses the registration application, they are > faced with a set of fields with > names which are too short to explain what each field is for. > eg: > Boolean field named: "Check Active fields for user authentication" > > To a new administrator, this is confusing and it's not apparent where to look > for an explanation. > > > Proposal: > I would like to add fields with names which are links to descriptions of what > those fields are for. > I can implement this in the "configurable" class which I am working on. > > This means XE would have links to xwiki.org but it already does on the > dashboard explanation of tags. > > WDYT?
I also believe that this is not a good idea. The wiki should be self-documented, any interface element should be clear. If a simple name is not good enough, then a tooltip should provide more information. If that's still not enough, then there is a Documentation link (to xwiki.org) at the bottom of the page already, the user should find the full documentation starting from there. But this is just the ideal solution. In reality, there are plenty of places where the short name is not descriptive enough (for example this check Active field), tooltips are rarely used, and many users complain that they can't find what they're looking for on xwiki.org. All these must be improved. For a start, this field could be renamed to "Require account validation through email" or something similar. Is that still not suggestive enough? Then, we need to make the property tooltip work. Third, we need to reorganize xwiki.org. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
