On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Code should be optimized so that the performance is better for the the > most used branches. Similarly, the UI should be optimized for the most > common use cases. How many users really have to add comments on an > action document? How often do administrator really leave important > messages to other administrators on wiki documents? Very rarely. Does it > make sense for this odd use case to keep the UI cluttered? I doubt that > users will be baffled more by the fact that comments are missing on some > actions than by the fact that you can actually have comments on actions. >
I strongly agree with this paragraph. > While you and I know that "everything is a document" in XWiki, normal > users just view actions as actions. Registering is an action, logging in > is an action, searching for documents is an action, browsing documents > by tags is an action. The fact that logging in is done through several > VM templates, Struts actions and internal XWiki components, while > browsing tags is done through a wiki document, has no significance to > the simple user. > > For some actions/documents it is clear when the main purpose is for > users to _do_ something or to _read_ something. Sure, there's some > reading involved in every action, and there's some doing involved in > every content read. For some actions it would be debatable in which > category they fit better. It would be hard to come up with a clear and > precise rule. I can't come up with one. Can you? > > That's why I'm proposing to just accept that there are documents > intended to be used mostly as action pages, and in that case it is OK to > hide the bottom tabs. That's all I'm asking. Do you agree or not with > this basic choice? > +1. > As for the actual decision of which documents fall into this category, I > think that it's OK to trust the opinion of the committers. We don't need > to decide now, we can improve things as we go along. > +1. -- Jean-Vincent Drean, XWiki. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
