2016-11-17 16:18 GMT+01:00 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > According to your suggestions, I have started some iterations in a real
> > wiki.
> >
> > Proposition 8, iteration 1
> > ==================
> > http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/33243/P8_iter1.png
> >
> > * Same wording
> > * Separation between wiki-related items and global items
> > * Remove "Home", because it's already in the breadcrumb and it is not
> > necessary to have it in this "often used features" menu.
> >  "Create Wiki" and "Delete Wiki", because it should be done inside the
> Wiki
> > Index.
> >
> >
> Some remarks:
> - We don't use officially the "subwiki" term. We have just "Wiki", see
> http://markmail.org/message/cehvpds5qmljq5f7
> - In Olivier's proposal there was also the name of the subwiki which was
> somehow interesting
>

Sorry, it was not clear from my screenshots, but my subwiki was actually
called "Subwiki". The plan is to use the name of the wiki.



> - There is an inconsistency between "Subwiki" and "Global actions" ... they
> should be similar in terms of naming structure (with or without "actions")
> - If you remove "Create wiki" and "Delete wiki" then I don't see such a
> need for the "subwiki-global" separation, since "Wiki Index" will be lonely
> -- We said we move "Create wiki" in the Wiki Index, but there we will have
> other problems in terms of displaying the option: will be make it part of
> the Create step? Do we create a separate button for it? How do we display
> it?
> - For wikis that allow just local users, the breadcrumb home doesn't take
> you to the Global home, but removing "Home" won't impact in this case,
> since apparently we don't display Home at all in this case. The problem is
> that for these cases, the users won't know how to go back to the main wiki.
>
>
>
> > Proposition 8, iteration 2
> > ==================
> > On subwiki:
> > http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/33245/P8_iter2.png
> >
> > On main wiki:
> > http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/33246/P8_iter2_mainwiki.png
> >
> > * Same but with a more human wording
> > * Applications is displayed before users, because I think we more often
> > need to use an app than we need to see other users
> >
>
> - Administration is a "human" wording and also it's used across our
> documentation and interface. Also it goes hand in hand with the
> Administrator user. I don't see big improvements in changing to the
> "Settings" wording.
> - There is a problem with "All Users" since in some setups, where you have
> local users, that link won't take you to "all" users. Again hard to say
> that it's really a correct separation.
> - Regarding the order, we should define a rule. It could either be
> alphabetical or usage (although that is hard to compute). With the mention
> that extremes are easier to access. So for example first and last items in
> a list are easier to access than intermediary items: so placing users after
> applications, because applications are more used, it will have the
> consequence that, being the last item in the list, it will make Users be
> easily to access than Applications.
>
>
> >
> > Proposition 8, iteration 3
> > ==================
> > http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/33247/P8_iter3.png
> >
> > * Same but introduced the "Recent Changes" entry (leads to an Activity
> > Stream maybe)
> >
>
> - Regarding the "Recent Changes" this could be see as application, so it
> could be available in the Application Index (kind of is, but as part of
> Dashboard).
>
>
> >
> > My conclusions
> > ===
> >
>
> - The problem is that if I read my comments and I remove the P8's
> subwiki/global separation (since Wiki Index is alone) + remove the "Create
> and Delete wiki" since we say they will be available in Wiki Index, remove
> the Home navigation since we rely on breadcrumbs, plus we keep the same
> wording, but maybe change a bit the Index order, we will have P9:
> http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/33250/P9.png
>
> And it doesn't quite have much of a change in it if we compare it to the
> current version. This might be good or bad. Following Jan-Paul comment that
> we should not advertise for 'Delete wiki' and that 'Create wiki' is very
> rare, we might say P9 contains just the needed elements: Administration +
> Indexes.
>
> Since the only difference between simple users and admins would be the
> "Administration", we could have it last as P9.1 + try a simpler naming:
> http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/33251/P9.1.png
>
> But now we will need to find a way to Create wikis.
>
> ---
>
> Now regarding Index naming. If we use:
> - Manage: for example "Manage Wikis", it will be harder to make it
> consistent with the other Indexes, since for example User Index does not
> provide the management setting (they are in administration). Also for
> simple users, manage verb doesn't mean anything.
> - All: all is complicated for farm setup, where "All Users" might mean just
> local users, same for Applications and Pages, since they are just local, so
> they are not all.
> - Index: it is a bit more ambiguous, but it better satisfy the duality of
> content.
> - //simple: Having just "Pages", "Users", etc. can be also a solution.
>
> ---
>
> Regarding Olivier's comment about "Recent changes" (in P7). I agree that
> the majority of wikis provide it, still we should find a solution to what
> will we present to the user (Olivier suggested a livetable so I guess he
> doesn't know our Activity Stream). Will it redirect to Main.Activity? Which
> one? The local or the global one? It could be the global one since we
> display the wiki prefixes, but I guess this again depends on the type of
> wiki you are located in.
>
> Regarding P7 I don't like it especially because it's removing Page Index
> (and relies on a panel that can be change depending on the current Flavor)
> and removes Application Index (with the rationale that AppBar is complete,
> which it isn't and again the panels can be easily changed).
>
> Thanks,
> Caty
>
>
> >
> > * Better look & feel
> > * More human wording
> > * Only feature we need often
> >
> > Is it going in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guillaume
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Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected])
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project
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