Hi, I've also added http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-7663
Thanks -Vincent On Mar 27, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Sorin Burjan wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have started testing and playing a little bit with our new features, the > "merge between Annotations and Comments". I am very happy about this new > feature, since this offers more flexibility and power. > > However, this is the initial commit and it still requires polishing in > order to be ultra cool. Here are some of my suggestions after I tried to > impersonate a "non technical end-user": > > 1) After adding an Annotation, user wants to add a reply by hovering over > the yellow icon and clicking on the "Reply" button. This will move the > caret at the bottom of the page, in the Comments Tab. It is a little bit > confusing for the end users, which would expect an input text area to > appear in the Annotation box, instead of being moved to the bottom of the > page. > > 2) User wants to see the full thread of an annotation. He/she will hover > over the yellow icon, and only the first/initial annotation will be > visible. If there is at least one reply to that annotation, the user will > see a link with "See thread". Clicking on the link, user will be sent in > the Comments tab at the bottom of the page. An idea is to be able to see > the whole thread related to that annotation in the same place, without > having to be moved to the bottom of the page. Now a problem might be if the > thread is really large. > > 3) User wants to delete the whole thread (maybe he/she wants to delete the > annotation + all the threads). Clicking on the x button, only the > first/actual displayed annotation will be deleted, leaving the rest of the > thread/replies on the page at the bottom. IMO this would create confusion > among end users and leave mess in the page objects, because users will not > understand the context of the remaining comments. This behavior actually > comes from Comments feature, which is keeping the replies even if the > level 1 comment is deleted. > > 4) Clicking on the "See Thread" link, will move the user to the bottom of > the page, and will highlight with yellow color the Author and Content of > the first annotation only. IMO this is not very suggestive, the highlight > could be useful only as a delimitation of the "starting" point of the > thread, but by highlighting the content too is confusing for end users. > This behavior comes from the Permalink behavior of Comments feature. > > 5) If we say that Annotations are merged with Comments, we can decide if we > still keep them visually separated. When adding a new Annotation, in the > Comments tab, you can see a small yellow icon denoting that this is an > annotation. If user replies to that annotation, the second/nested > annotation will be treated as a regular comment. This means only level 1 > annotations are marked with the yellow sign, replies or ordinary comments > aren't. This seems a little inconsistent IMO. > > This is not a vote, but if we decide on polishing one of these things, I > will create the corresponding JIRA issues. > > WDYT ? > > Regards, > Sorin B. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
