On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On 08 Jun 2016, at 11:01, Marius Dumitru Florea <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
> [email protected]
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This is a follow up on the initial brainstorming done, see
> >> http://markmail.org/message/hbuhhkxcjodtfxwi
> >>
> >> This proposal aims to replace the current Dashboard with a more simple
> wiki
> >> content page:
> >>
> >>
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/HomepageSketches/HomepageLayoutVote/
> >>
> >> I would like you to vote on the 2 versions of left panels:
> >>
> >
> >
> >> 1. AppBar + Pages
> >>
> >
> > The tree (Pages) looks good when you have a few top level nodes and only
> > one level of hierarchy. It doesn't look that good when you have many
> nodes
> > and a deep hierarchy because it needs more space than what is available
> in
> > the panel. Vertically is kind of OK but you cannot add another panel
> below
> > the tree because it will be shifted down when you expand the tree. We
> could
> > limit the height of the tree (max-height) but we'll get a vertical scroll
> > bar pretty soon. The horizontal space is a big problem. Wrapping the node
> > labels on multiple lines might work if the hierarchy is not deep, but the
> > horizontal scroll bar is inevitable in the end. Having scroll bars
> > (especially horizontal) inside a web page is bad UIX. A solution is to
> > allow the user to resize the panel width using some drag handle. The
> panel
> > content will have to adapt to the panel size dynamically of course.
> >
> > So I think version (1) looks good but it doesn't scale with what we have
> > right now. Thus I'm more in favour of solution (2), at least until we can
> > resize the panel width.
>
> I think the idea for the tree is to have something by default that helps
> the user initially.
>
> If for their future needs, it’s not perfect for their need like taking too
> much vertical space, they can always remove it.
>
>

> It’s more for users to understand that there’s a hierarchy of pages in
> their wiki I think.
>

In that case I'm OK with version (1).


>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> > Thanks,
> > Marius
> >
> >
> >> 2. AppBar
> >>
> >> Also provide feedback on the content. I've added the content on this
> page:
> >>
> >>
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/HomepageSketches/HomepagePrototype/
> >> in order for you to see how it behaves with the editors. [1]
> >>
> >> The objective was to have an easy to edit content, very close to what we
> >> have in view mode.
> >>
> >> Let me know what you think.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Caty
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] Since we don't have CKEditor installed on design wiki, see how it
> would
> >> looks like
> >>
> >>
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/HomepageSketches/WebHome/ckeditor.png
>
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