On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Benjamin Lanciaux <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello devs,
>>
>> I have a suggestion about the CKeditor layout.
>>
>> I’ve found this skin: http://ckeditor.com/addon/office2013
>>
>> I think it would be really great if we could have it for the XE CKeditor
>> for various reasons:
>>
>>
>
>>    - it appears (to me) that this is more modern than what we have in the
>>    current version
>>
>
> I don't find it more modern. 2013 is 3 years ago :)
>
>
>>    - most of the basic/end users are used to Microsoft Office editor, they
>>    are familiar with it
>>
>
> Any stats to prove this? :) But even if this is the case, CKEditor is not
> a word processor and wiki pages are not office documents. I don't think our
> users need a Microsoft Word clone.
>
>    - in terms of communication, this can help promoting XWiki Enterprise,
>>    showing that the community is taking into account end users’ needs.
>>
>
> If the community votes for this then I'm ok with that, but you should take
> into account that this skin is an add-on provided by an individual (
> http://ckeditor.com/users/danya.postfactum) and thus is not supported by
> the CKEditor development team. I don't know how quickly the author will be
> available to fix the issues we may encounter on various browsers (do you
> know which browsers are supported?) and to update the skin to work with
> newer versions of CKEditor. If you check the compatibility table you'll see
> that at the moment we don't know for sure if it works fine with CKEditor
> 4.5.x which we use.
>
>
I would rather add support for packaging CKEditor skins as XWiki Extensions
and allow users to install a new skin and to configure the editor to use it.


> Thanks,
> Marius
>
>
>>
>> I’m looking forward to your feedback on this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>>
>> <http://xwiki.com>
>> *Benjamin Lanciaux*
>> *Marketing Communications Manager*
>> [email protected]
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