On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Eddy, >> >> 2014-09-25 11:59 GMT+02:00 Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>: >> >> > 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 >> >
> More generally speaking, this is true for a lot of livetables. We would > need a generic "Create" button to be available when we instantiate a > livetable. This could be useful for the wiki index page, for the user > directory, for all the AWM homepages... I guess you like the files live table from the File Manager then :) http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/File+Manager+Application#HFileLiveTable . Would be interesting to have such a toolbar (with support for custom buttons) before the live table don't you think? > > Basically the button would let the user create a new item of the same type > than the items displayed in the livetable. Right now we do this in an > ad-hoc fashion, so it would be great to have a generic solution. It's also > related to the automatic page name generation module (that we don't have in > the core yet, though there's an extensions doing it > <http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Unique+Identification+Number+Module> > ). > > Guillaume > > >> > - 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) >> > >> >> Personally, I like the fact that it is located near the Edit button, even >> if it does not concern the current page. Because it groups the most basic >> and useful actions that you need when you want to contribute: EDIT, ADD. >> >> To me, it makes sense. >> >> >> > >> > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > devs mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) >> Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS >> Committer on the XWiki.org project >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
