Hi, Yes, "this is not a bug, it's a feature!" :) I had documented it in a small paragraph [1] (see the note) but did not feel it was worthy to be mentioned in the release notes. Please feel free to rephrase if needed.
It's not specifically about "Main", but about the current wiki's homepage (and "Main.WebHome" is the default homepage that can be changed from administration). The effort is to try to avoid the situation where a regular user lands on the homepage of the wiki (just accessed the wiki or maybe he clicked the logo) and wants to create a document. He enters the title and presses "create". Obviously his intention was to create a page, and, more often than not (IMO at least), his actual intention was to create a top level document and not a child document of the wiki's current homepage. Image the homepage gets changed to "Some.Deep.Document.As.Homepage". Without this "trick", a regular user would end up, by mistake IMO (and by using the "next-next-next" mindset), creating the document "Some.Deep.Document.As.Homepage.NewDocument". Even if the homepage remains the default one, I see no logical reason in spamming all the new documents with the "Main" prefix, the result being an artificially deeper hierarchy and longer URL. If a user really intended to create a document as a child of the homepage (rare usecase IMO), he has all the tools in the UI to simply do so. I agree that it's a minor consistency dent, but IMO the benefit justifies it. WDYT? (interested in more opinions on this since I`ve already had 2 eyebrows raised on this topic :) ) Thanks, Eduard --------- [1] http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/DocumentLifecycle#HByusingtheAddPageaction On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > I started trying out XE 7.2 (SNAPSHOT from around 12:30 today) and I was > very impressed, the changes look quite good! > > While playing with it, I had a question about how the "Main" space is > handled. Here's what I did: from .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/, I clicked the > "create" button and created a sub page, then a sub-sub page. Here's what I > got: > > - .../xwiki/bin/view/SubPage/SubSubPage > > Although I was expecting this: > > - .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/SubPage/SubSubPage > > So I was wondering whether this was the expected behavior, and whether it > had been discussed before? > > Congrats & Thanks, > > Guillaume > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
