----- "Fabio Mancinelli" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09/02/2010 11:13 AM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:
> 
> >>> Another little remark: I think that user (and application)
> updates
> >>> should be expanded by default without needing the user to click in
> order
> >>> to show the actual message.
> >
> > If we gonna have in the future something like this
> >
> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/AvatarsProposal/vcard.png
> > where we can put also the status in, then in order to see the status
> message
> > you could just hover the name of the user and you are not gonna have
> to
> > click on it.
> >
> > For me, expanding statuses and application and not pages is
> inconsistency.
> >
>  > Also, we can have in the filters (don't know where) an "Expand /
> Collapse
>  > All" option for people that have a certain preference in
> displaying.
>  >
>  >
> 
> IMHO, I think that the information and functionality of the "Changed 
> status" toggle adds unneeded complexity: when the user sees the avatar
> 
> icon in the activity stream she already knows that a "status has 
> changed", this information is already conveyed by the fact that an
> entry 
> of that type exists! Moreover a status update will contain, il 90% of
> 
> the cases, a single message so 90% of the "Changed status" expansion 
> will contain only 1 item.
> 
> For documents is different because changes can be a lot so the "4 
> changes by 3 contributors" conveys additional information.
> 
> What could be done to solve the "consistency" issue is to always
> display 
> the first item and hide the others in the collapsed list.
> 
> * So for single status updates you will have the status update
> directly 
> displayed.

+1

And it would not shock me either if the style differs a little from the 
document updates : no icon but directly the user picture, a bit bigger than 
icons.

Jerome.

> 
> * For multiple status updates by the same user you will have the last
> 
> one + a "3 more..." hidden behind the toggle
> 
> * For document updates with a single change you will just have the 
> change that has been done
> 
> * For documents with multiple changes you will have just the latest 
> change + "X more changes by Y contributors" toggle with the rest.
> 
> This would also solve the problem of having an activity stream
> filtered 
> only by "status updates" where the user has to click every time on 
> "expand all" in order to actually have the information which should be
> 
> available (and expected) by default.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> -Fabio
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