On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
> > > On 18 Apr 2017, at 13:54, Marius Dumitru Florea < > mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < > > vali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> Some users have complained that the content actions are too abstract / > >> ambiguous and they don't see/understand them so they don't know how to > Edit > >> or Create content in the first minutes of interaction. > >> > >> More details about this problem can be found at > >> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaLabeledActions > >> > >> There I've suggested 2 possible proposals: > >> Proposal 1: JS Tooltips > >> > > > > > >> Proposal 2: Labeled actions > >> > > > > Forcing labeled actions for all the users may annoy the power users. Some > > options: > > > > * make it configurable (from the user profile) > > * show labels only for simple users > > * show labels when accessibility mode is enabled from the user profile > > * modify the tour to make the user edit the home page (interactive tour), > inviting him to click on the content actions buttons (at least the edit > one). > > Proposal 3: Use Labels instead of Icons, as it’s done by wikipedia. > > Personally I don’t like proposal 2 or 3 and if they’re made configurable > then it would be the same issue since we would need to pick a default and > we would force regular xwiki users to have to change their settings which > isn’t nice. > > Regarding simple vs advanced users, I’m not sure it’s the problem. I’ve > experimented this over the week end (see my other mail) and the issue was > locating this action bar and understanding it. But once it was understood > it was very easy to use for the user and he actually liked that it wasn’t > taking too much visual space. > > > So I think it’s only a discoverability issue and not a regular usage issue. > I agree. > > Another option would be that when the user hovers over the action icons in > the default content for Main.WebHome, (for example if he tries to click on > them), that we would highlight the content menu very visibly or something > like that. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > Thanks, > > Marius > > > > > >> Which one do you prefer? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Caty > >> > >> P.S: This was a recurrent topic and we change several things over the > >> years. I guess we will continue iterating until we reach the sweet spot > :) > >
