On 06/25/2012 11:03 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jun 25, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Anca Luca wrote:
On 06/25/2012 09:24 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi guys,
Some time back we started improving title handling, I'd like that we continue
this and I'm proposing some further improvements below:
* Make the title field contain wiki syntax (same as the content field) instead
of just velocity
it's interesting if we have an i18n macro... for the rest of the formatting I'm
not sure... I don't know if formatting in titles is used that often
* Make the title field a textarea so that we can have more than 1 line
big +1, not for the lines, but for the size (255 becomes quickly too small)
* Display a textarea of 1 line initially (to preserve space) but enlarge the
textarea visibility by several line on the first Enter keypress in the field
more or less, I think we should keep it simple for the titles: no wysiwyg
editor, no textarea, just as it was until now, except that longer.
I really think we need wysiwyg, same as for content because it's wiki syntax.
This is a technical argument. If 80% of the people in 80% of the cases
don't need / care about formatting titles (putting bold, italic, wiki
macros, links, images and other stuff in the titles) then we should not
put it only because it's possible (and yes, sure, consistent with the
implementation!). 80% (*) of the people will want to set a text and will
see this whole sofisticated thing with links, images, macros which will
generate a WTF and a feeling of overdone.
(*) I might be wrong on the numbers, my feeling is that 80% expect
simple text for the title, but we can research, if you want.
Could you explain your rationale for not having wiki syntax in the title field?
? have I ever said that?
We can have it, but we should not show it because people don't use it
and can create confusion. Now, the problem if we don't show it is that
people will put ** and other wiki syntax which will get interpreted and
they won't understand why.
Also not having wysiwyg will not remove the WTF effect we currently have, see
http://markmail.org/thread/jwbbz4ypjqcpwral
We could have another solution for that besides a fully fledged wysiwyg.
Note that I am only against about a fully fledged wysiwyg. If we find
some other visual solution (e.g. as Jerome suggested) I have nothing
against, I'm just saying that title should stay simple and the wysiwyg
is not simple (if only for the fact that it has 2 rows of buttons!).
For translations though, if a wiki is put in multilanguage mode and you
make a translation of the document, you can translate the title, IIRC.
So aren't only the application developers concerned about the
translations of the titles? (because they script the pages and they
don't want to make 3 translations only to provide the title in a
different language). Because if it's the case, it's also the situation
for the velocity titles, so there is no need to show these "features" to
regular users, we just need to make a better (easier to customize)
default xar. Maybe distribute language by language instead of all in one
pack?
Actually, this is another interesting question: do users actually use
translations for document titles, or the pb is only when they want to
customize the default xar?
Thanks,
Anca
Thanks
-Vincent
* Stop trying to extract title content from the doc content
* Have a backward compat param to still support the old mode, but have it off
by default in 4.2/4.3
This is interesting too, but I don't have a strong opinion, although not
extracting titles anymore would be wonderful :) .
<side>
* Introduce a {{i18n}} macro (or {{translate}}, or …)
</side>
+1
I think we should also have a discussion about the purpose of the title (now
that we can put anything in document name) and how titles should be used by
default by the platform, but I need to clear the ideas a bit in my head before
starting it.
Thanks,
Anca
Advantages:
* Same as the content field - More consistency
* More power since we use wiki syntax and we can use any script language
* Removes the WTF symptom when a user edits a page having velocity script in
the title since they'll see it displayed in WYSIWYG mode with the title content
evaluated
* Removes the uncertainty about title extraction (for ex if some macro
generates headings) but still allow it if it's really needed - Since the user
will be able to write scripts in the title textarea and those scripts can
extract stuff from the doc content if they really need it
* We'll be able to add a l18n macro and thus display the title translations
nicely in the wysiwyg editor
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
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