On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:51 AM, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Magnus Manske > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Like many other "old hands", it seems to get in the way of my workflow. > Not > >> an issue for me, as long as I can turn it off. > > hehe, i suppose investing a million $$ to get you turning it off because > it is > in your way is probably not the goal :) > Well, for a million $$ MediaViewer would be slightly overpriced ;-) > > >> It's probably fine for "modern" viewing, although it's hard to guess > that > >> you get to the file page via the little Commons icon for people who (in > all > >> likelihood) have never seen that icon, or visited Commons. > > > Indeed, the icon to the File: page is currently very opaque. We're > > preparing for a round of possible changes to the viewing experience, > > potentially including > > - moving caption above the fold so readers don't have to hunt for it > > - moving disable action above-the-fold > > - potentially eliminating the below-the-fold panel entirely > > - emphasizing the File: page more prominently as the canonical source > > of metadata > > - separating out download/use actions more clearly > > > > These changes will need to be carefully tested/validated. If you want > > to take a look at an early early (!) prototype (!!), see > > http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo , but please > > magnus, do these changes make you turn it on again? if not, what would need > to be better? > I think this is a non-issue. It took one click to get to the image page; now it takes two. That's my main "problem" with it. As I said, I'm not the target audience for this. I hope. > > i think there is two kinds of feedback. (1) technical / feature / workflow > issues. like "i cannot tag easy", "esc leaves mediaviewer instead of > fullscreen", "browser zoom (ctrl-/+) does not work". "X takes one click > more now". i d love this to be taken into account. > > while i find design issues more difficult. the whole user experience > needs, at least imo, consistency. tinkering here and there > may quite heavily break that. better would be to encourage > getting alternative full designs. if this would include how to > clean the commons page ... but that might be too much :) > > rupert > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
