On 27 sep 2008, at 16:15, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
I want to propose PLIP 238: Disable inline editing by default
Motivation
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I suspect that by now most of us have realized that the current
inline editing
behaviour in Plone 3 is not very practical. It has two main problems:
* it is very easily triggered by default, which causes unwanted edit
fields to
be opened which have to be manually closed. This happens because
many,
if not most, people click accidentily, select text to keep track of
the reading position, try to select text to copy&paste it or for
other
reasons. Since every single click activates inline edit this happens
all too often and becomes very frustrating over time.
I think that it's not caused by inline editing but by a bad UI choice
here. I never ever understood why it was triggered by a single click.
For me that is the only reason why I have this disabled in our
intranets. I think that when done right this could still work well. So
even if you make it optional, when enabled it should be done properly.
I suggest–when enabled–that it doesn't trigger on single click but by
clicking on a tiny icon that shows up next to the field when hovering
over the field's value. Simple, unobtrusive and predictable. You could
even do a fade-in on hover so that you don't see it when moving over
the page.
* as Alexander mentioned in his new UI proposal what you really want
is
a quick option to go to a full edit-mode. Editing a single field is a
much less common operation than we were expecting.
Yes, maybe but as we say in The Netherlands: a lot of water will have
flown through the Rhine before that will have happened. In the mean
time this could work as intentended.
Proposal
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Current Plone releases have a simple toggle to enable or disable
inline
editing. I propose that we change the default for newly created
sites to
disabled.
My counter proposal is to make it optional and when enable refactor
the trigger as described above.
Danny.
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