Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Overhaul of the administration, layout

Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: -1, the main reason being that the left "tabs" are not L10N-friendly (imagine how the german translation will break out of the allocated space). Another bad point is that it wastes too much space, on small screens there isn't much left for the actual administration part. The only good point is that it allows 1-click switching to another section. +0, the advantage is that it provides a familiar interface. The downside is that it does not indicate in any way that this is an advanced manipulation of the wiki (administration). It looks like any other page, but is this entirely a good thing? -0, because it is not consistent at all: first screen does not have any panels, all sections have one panel, except the panel administration section, which has normal view-mode panels. Besides, it has the same downsides as option 1 (too much space wasted, L10N-unfriendly). +1, because it maximizes the space efficiency, looks different from normal page view (indicating that this is something special), is consistent between different sections and the administration main page, and is L10N friendly. There's no good answer here. It depends on the size of the wiki, for small wikis with a small number of spaces, the complete list works, but it becomes unusable as the wiki grows. For example, Curriki has several spaces for each user, and it has almost 40.000 users, so how would at least 100.000 spaces look? (yes, Curriki is a spacial case). So, the best thing would be to have both ways, but only one enabled by default, and the other one commented out in the velocity template, so that if somebody else wants to use it, the changes would be minimal. Another option is to use an ajax scrollbar for selecting the space. Yet another option is to switch dynamically depending on the number of spaces. If there are less than, let's say, 30 space, display the full list. If there are more, then print the suggest code. But for the first release, I think that the easiest solution is the best. We can improve it later, it doesn't make sense to delay this further (1.5M2 should be released this week, and I'd like to see the new administration in it). So, +1 for a static list. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/