Hi Vincent

2014-04-10 12:18 GMT+02:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>:

> Hi Caty,
>
> On 10 Apr 2014 at 11:46:52, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ([email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of the objectives of 6.0 is to review the existing applications on
> > extensions.xwiki.org, improve them and see how they would integrate in
> the
> > new Flamingo skin (while also making improvements suggestions).
> >
> > This mail covers the Flamingo integration for the Forum Application.
> >
> > You can see the proposal at:
> > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign
> >
> > Any feedback is welcomed.
>
> Very nice, I like it! Thanks for this proposal :)
>
> Some comments/questions:
>
> * On the home page (
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/forums.png),
> the title is "Forum" and then there's a subtitle "All Forums" with a "Add
> forum" button. I was wondering if it wouldn't be nicer to have "All Forums"
> as the title and instead of the "Add forum" button, use the "+Add" button
> just above to let the user add a new forum (thus using the template
> provider feature)? That would make the UI even more pure.
>

I'm +1 to add a UI extension in the Add menu, but -0 for using the template
provider feature.
With this features, the templates are listed when you do "Create Page", but
when you create a forum or a topic, you are not supposed to know that you
will create a wiki page. Actually, when you create a forum, do you create
space or a page?


> * I find a forum's description a bit small and not visible enough compared
> to the list of topics:
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/dota_topics.pngMaybe
>  we could do something to make it stand out more?
>
> * When viewing all answers (for example
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/heroes_vengeful_answers.png),
> each answer has a textarea visible to reply to a given answer. Mabye these
> textarea should not be shown by default and they should appear only when
> you click a "Reply" button?
>
> * I think we're missing a compact view of all posts in a topic/forum,
> using a livetable for example. For example:
> http://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/0-25271-0-1-0-1-0-dota-2.htm or
> http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=3
>
> * When listing all topics you seem to be cropping the topic description.
> We've noticed in the blog app that automatic cropping doesn't work so if we
> want that we'll need to ask the user to provide a short version and a long
> version description for a topic IMO.
>
> * Should answers be implemented as page comments but styled differently
> than traditional comments? That would make sense to me. I noticed on your
> screenshots that the extradoc tabs at the bottom is not displayed.
>
> Thanks!
> -Vincent
>
> > Thanks,
> > Caty
>
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Thanks,

Louis-Marie
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