On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 28 Nov 2016, at 16:18, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 11/28/2016 09:35 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >>>>> I believe a "Developer" user is what we really need. > >>>> > >>>> Actually that wouldn’t solve the problem I had either since it would > mean > >>>> having to navigate to the user profile, make the change, go back to > where > >>>> you were, check the hidden docs, then go back again to your user > profile, > >>>> put back the profile again and navigate back… Doesn’t work! > >>>> > >>> > >>> Of course the "Developer" user would have the "show hidden docs" option > >>> enabled, and would be an "advanced user", so all you would have to do > is to > >>> log-in as "Developer”. > >> > >> Yes but Developers are not the only category of people who may need to > see hidden docs easily. > >> > > > > I don't quite agree. Why would a non-developer be interested in a code > > page? I can think of three reasons: > > > > - the page shouldn't have been hidden if users want to reach it > > - the user is trying to change something in the code, which is actually > > a developer task, so even if the user isn't an actual developer, he acts > > as one temporarily > > - the user is trying to adjust something, which means that there's a > > configuration missing; still, I'd argue that this is also a developer > task > > Actually I’m sure there are plenty of other use cases. Let me list just 2 > that comes to my mind: > > - The user has deleted some page without checking the “delete” children > and there were hidden docs in there and he needs to see what those pages > are. > In the past, we had users who could not understand why their “page” > (actually the space) wasn’t deleted and why they were still seeing a node > in the Document Tree for them. > If a page is shown in the Document Tree then it's either non-hidden or it has a non-hidden descendant page. > > - The user is an Admin or an advanced users and need to do some gardening > on the wiki and see that pages are located in the right places according to > the defined taxonomy. He doesn’t need to be a developer to be a gardnerer > (and he doesn’t need to understand the code on those pages either). > > Right now the “Hide/Show hidden docs” is not a feature attached to any > profile and I really believe it’s best to keep it like that (allows for all > use cases). > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > -- > > Sergiu Dumitriu > > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > >
