I have pretty much the same comments. The former location of that
button made much more sense to me but given my usual participation to
big Flaming design discussions I can't really complain too much ;)


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> I`m not sure if we already have a discussion started on this topic, but in
> my opinion, it's long overdue. I see people start being confused and
> questions like this [1] start to be asked.
>
> The new location of the Add menu in Flamingo is problematic IMO for a
> various number of reasons:
> - It falsely gives the impression that it adds page-related entries (i.e.
> related to the current page), due to its current location (i.e. in the page
> content)
> - It conflicts with AWM`s "Add new Entry" button
> - from my POV, looking at the page from a far, the new location looks
> completely randomly selected:
> -- It's not on the left/top (as left-to-right language specific brains are
> trained to follow)
> -- it's not exactly at the top either
> -- it's not at the right
> -- it's not next to the type of elements it creates (i.e. next to
> WIKI/SPACE/PAGE)
> -- it basically is almost in the middle of the screen
> - etc. (i.e. others that don`t come right now to my mind)
>
> I`d like to open a discussion on this, since it's quite an important aspect
> of the UI and, due to it's shiny green color (which I like :)), it`s hard
> to miss.
>
> Is it just me who's resistant to change, or do others see a problem here
> with this as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Eduard
>
> ----------
> [1] http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/rqcxryksa2ckjhpm
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