As I see that A and B ar not mutually exclusive but complementary. Correct me If I'm wrong.
Probably when B is used, then panels (at least left panels) should not be shown at all. Valdis > Hi XWiki Users, > > Please help the dev team solve a UI design dilemma. Your feedback is > very important, we really need the point of view of all categories of users. > > > The context: > > We wish to get rid of the editor panels and integrate their > corresponding functionality in the editor itself. There are several > reasons for doing this (having all the editor functions in one place, > without depending on the panels that might or might not be in the > database, having the possibility to integrate the editors in view mode > without functionality loss, etc). > > > The proposals: > > A) http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Design/ImprovedEdit#HVariantA > All the information from the side panels is inserted in the main editor > in semantically related places > - the language/translation can be chosen from the content menu > - the user can change the parent document by editing the hierarchy > - the included documents are listed above the content > - the document syntax can be selected from a field placed near the > content textarea; a link to the syntax help page is provided in the same > place. Note that the included documents and the page syntax are only > visible in the wiki editing mode. Users editing pages in wysiwyg are not > bothered with such details. > > B) http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Design/ImprovedEdit#HVariantB > All the information from the side panels is grouped in an "Advanced > options" zone, hidden by default and displayable on the right. This > variant is highly similar to what we currently have in edit mode, with > the additional possibility to hide it to gain more horizontal space. > > > Please comment on these proposals, telling us which works better for > you. New ideas are also welcome. > > > Thanks in advance for your feedback, which will help us move forward. > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
