Hi Edy, thanks for the explanation. Please see my feedback below.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > Does this feature (changing the home page) still makes sense in the context of nested spaces? What is the point to define the home page as ".../A/B/C" when based on the new system, "C" is a sub-sub page? To me, with nested spaces the home page is always the same and cannot be changed. You may want to add a redirect, but this doesn't change the fact that the top page is the same. > 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. > I agree with this. However, in that case, shouldn't the home page be simply *https://<server>/xwiki/bin/view/* instead of *https://<server>/xwiki/bin/view/Main/* ? Using short URLs, you could even have the home page under *https://<server>/ *and then subpages at *https://<server>/A, **https://<server>/A/B* and so on. This would be in line with what most CMS do and it would fix your issue: any page created from the home is a sub-page at the expected level. 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". > As I said above, I actually think we should remove this feature in the context of nested spaces. > 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. > Agreed. As mentioned above, ideally we'd remove it. > 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. > I don't quite agree that it's minor. One of the implied goals of nested spaces is to be able to have consistent URL naming (I know exactly where page *https://<server>/A/B/C *is). Having a special case for Main breaks this. Similarly, when on the home page on the main wiki, I don't understand why the breadcrumb shows both the "home" icon and "Home" text. Why keep both when the icon would be enough? Thanks, Guillaume 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
