On 09/02/2010 11:13 AM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:
>> Another little remark: I think that user
(and application)
updates
>> should be expanded by default without
needing the user to click in
order
> to
show the actual message.
If we gonna have in the future something like this
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/AvatarsProposa…
where we can put also the status in, then in
order to see the status
message
you could just hover the name of the user and you
are not gonna have
to
click on it.
For me, expanding statuses and application and not pages is
inconsistency.
Also, we can have in the filters (don't know where) an "Expand /
Collapse
All" option for people that have a certain
preference in
displaying.
IMHO, I think that the information and functionality of the "Changed
status" toggle adds unneeded complexity: when the user sees the avatar
icon in the activity stream she already knows that a "status has
changed", this information is already conveyed by the fact that an
entry
of that type exists! Moreover a status update will contain, il 90% of
the cases, a single message so 90% of the "Changed status" expansion
will contain only 1 item.
For documents is different because changes can be a lot so the "4
changes by 3 contributors" conveys additional information.
What could be done to solve the "consistency" issue is to always
display
the first item and hide the others in the collapsed list.
* So for single status updates you will have the status update
directly
displayed.