Hi Gaby,

On 7 Aug 2015 at 10:40:51, Gabriela Smeria 
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

> Hello Marius,
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > The wiki home page displays, by default, the list of spaces that exist
> > in the wiki (hidden or not, depending on the user profile settings).
> > This is done using the
> > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Spaces+Macro . As
> > we have started to work on adding support for nested spaces/documents,
> > we need to review the purpose of this macro. Is it still relevant to
> > display a list of spaces when there is a tree hierarchy? It only makes
> > sense if you want to display just the list of direct children of a
> > given node.
> >
> > I see the following options:
> >
> > (1) Display the list of top level nodes (space/document) on the wiki
> > home page. No tree. The rationale is that loading the tree (even if
> > done lazy) is more expensive that displaying a static list of links.
> > For this we can extend the Spaces Macro with a parameter to specify
> > the parent node. When this parameter is not specified the macro will
> > list the top level nodes. (In the context of nested documents we could
> > introduce a new macro Document List instead)
> >
> 
> -0 for (1), because even though it takes less time to display a list of top
> level nodes, I don't think it's achieving the concept of Nested Spaces
> (Documents), since what will be shown it is what is shown now, without the
> Nested Spaces concept implemented.
> 
> 
> > (2) Display the tree hierarchy on the wiki home page, using
> > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Document+Tree+Macro
> > .Of course, the tree will be lazy loaded, and only the top level nodes
> > are displayed initially. If we do this then we can probably deprecate
> > the Spaces Macro and advice the users to use the Document Tree Macro
> > instead.
> >
> 
> +1 for (2), because this is what we want in the end, to see (or at least to
> have the possibility to visualize) a hierarchy of Nested Spaces (Documents)

See also my proposal (3) in my previous answer on this thread.

WDYT about it?

Thanks
-Vincent

> > WDYT?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marius

> Thanks,
> Gabriela

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