Hi Marius, On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Yes and yes :-) Guillaume > > 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
