Hi, On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 20:15, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 06:46 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > > I'm strongly against the way the treeview works right now. Nobody > > understands the mix of space and parent/child relationship. I'd KISS it, > > keeping only the space/page relationship. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle > One idea: ghost symlinks. > "The KISS principle states that simplicity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity>should be a key goal in design <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design>, and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided." Ghost symlinks? - how does the treeview thing work? - well, it's easy, just click the ghost symlink below that other page and the whole thing will start scrolling to get you somewhere different from where you were located - oh > [s] Main > - [p] WebHome > - [p^] /Blog . WebHome/ > - [p] Great news! > - [p] BigClient contract > - [p] BigClient project description > - [p] More great news! > [s] Blog > - [p] WebHome > - [p] Meet Joe Dyke, our new CTO > - [p^] /Main . Great news!/ > - [p^] /Main . More great news!/ > > [s] is the space icon, [p] is the page icon, [p^] is the page icon with > the shortcut overlay. The ghost documents are written in italic with a > lighter color, and clicking on such a symlink will show the real > document, by expanding the tree to it, scroll it into view (with > anymation), and select it. > > Note that in the Main space the other children of the Blog.WebHome page > are not displayed, and in the Blog space the deeper hierarchy of the > external documents is not shown > > WDYT? > > Of course, this as a better UI for the alldocs/tree view; the export UI > should could keep just the space/docs two-level hierarchy. > I think the same, simple, understandable, Space / Page hierarchy should be used everywhere. An alternative is what we do for WebDAV and provide 2 different interfaces: EITHER space/page OR parents/children but never a mix of both. Guillaume > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki SAS Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
