20 Jan
2009
20 Jan
'09
9:36 p.m.
On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Marta Girdea
<marta.girdea(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's important IMO. We need people to contribute as much as possible
to their wikis and I'm pretty sure that when people see their faces
they contribute more. It helps put emphasis on their contributions.
I'm definitely for using avatars although maybe the size could be
reduced (but JV says it won't look nice below).
This is starting to look really nice, I
particularly like the fact
that the
recent changes are displayed in a more comprehensive manner.
I have a few comments though:
1/ The two columns look a bit unbalanced. Isn't there some other
important
information the user would like to see on in the dashboard, that
could fill
the empty space? Or maybe we could reduce the number of displayed
recent
changes?
I think that the average wiki contains more spaces than incubator (way
more in some cases).
You can try to reduce the number of items in recent changes by passing
changesNb=15 in the URL (this variable can be set in the document
too).
2/ There are some scalability problems: on the
'Recent changes'
column, if
the document name is long, 'see modifications' that appears on
hover shows
up on the next row and pushes the rest of the content down, and
this is not
pretty. What could be done is use an icon instead of text, and this
way we'd
have consistency with the 'Spaces' section.
It's not pretty but I've asked for feedback during the devel process
and since this onhover link vary a lot (link vs. ajax) between items
(page vs. comment) it seemed to be way more comprehensive to write it
and use visual hints (color + [+] and [-]) than to use images.
3/ I don't think the user's avatar is a
crucial information to
display in
Recent changes. Also, too few or too many document changes per user
will
result in empty spaces. Maybe reducing the image's size would
partly solve
the problem.
This is the first negative feedback about avatars, I agree it's not
crucial but it allow to put a face on changes which is a good thing I
think.
I'm afraid that a lot of avatars will not look pretty with a height
smaller than 60px.
Thanks,
JV.
Thanks
-Vincent
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