21 Feb
2018
21 Feb
'18
2:43 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea <
mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
I don't get it. I thought the usability problem
was that it's not
straightforward
to *change* the logo. How is the proposed solution helping the user change
the logo when the color theme he selected specifies a logo? The user still
needs to go to the color theme to change the logo. Or to the skin, or to
the page preferences, etc. The user still needs to know where all these
places where the logo can be defined are and check each of them to make
sure the logo he sets is not overwritten.
It doesn't fix the solution entirely, but allows the user to set his logo
as the default logo. We should try to remove the overwrites from the skin /
color themes and fallback on the default logo. Overwriting the logo from
skin/color theme/space will still be possible, but this should be used only
in advanced use cases.
Currently we are providing too many XWiki logos in the custom Color Themes
(for example in the case of dark colors) and we duplicate the logo in all
these places, forcing the user to know the priority order.
Currently there is no UI to change the default logo. You can only change it
from the file system.
From the Administration, the user instead of changing
the Skin logo, go to
the CT. This could also be improved by: (A) making sure the
Skin logo is as
easy to change as the one from CT, (B) maybe change the order of displayed
configurations from (Default Logo, CT, Icon Themes, Skin) to (Default Logo,
Skin, CT, Icon Themes) - this order would better present the priority
order, but it would put on a lower place the CT change, which is quite
often and popular.
---
So for this proposal we had Thomas, Alex, Guillaume, Vincent, me agreed.
Marius, let me know if you have other questions / suggestions.
Thanks,
Caty
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
logo,
the
and
different
> Color Themes on some wikis / spaces.
> If the logos are inherited it's fine, I am not forced to attach the logo
in
pages.
skin?
usability
there
Hi all,
After talking to Caty we’ve defined the following Use Cases and algorithm
for selecting which logo to use:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/
IdeaChangeLogo#HSolution1
Note 1: In the near future we also need to implement Nested Pages support
(i.e. inherit WebPreferences).
Note 2: We need to decide where to store the user-defined system-wide
default logo. I’m proposing to define a wiki page for that, somewhere in
the XWiki space. One idea could be to have a XWiki.BaseSkin page on the
main wiki to hold base skin overrides (from the FS).
Let us know what you think.
Thanks
-Vincent
valicac(a)gmail.com
On 12 Feb 2018, at 11:30, Ecaterina Moraru
(Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
>
>> Hi Caty,
>>
>>
>>> On 12 Feb 2018, at 11:02, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net
> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> On 9 Feb 2018, at 15:34, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
valicac(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 4:29 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Caty,
>>>>>
>>>>> I see in the screenshot that it says “The default logo can be
> overridden
>>>>> (typo in your text btw ;)) by Color Themes or at wiki or page
level”.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Several questions:
>>>>>> * What does it mean “at wiki or page level”? How do you do
that?
>> Using a
>>>>>> custom skin? Using a color theme?
>>>>>> * Does it mean this is adding yet another way of defining the
>>> which
>>>>> means that we would the ability to set it in the new admin UI, in
> skins
>>> &
>>>>> in color themes? Isn’t that too much?
>>>>> * What does it mean in practice when you set it in the admin UI,
i.e.
>>>>> where is it materialized?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well these are the questions we need to answer from a development
point
>>>> of
>>>>> view.
>>>>> In theory it would be nice to be able to change the Skin logo using
>> this
>>>>> control. Somehow create a shortcut between this default logo and
>> skin
>>>>> logo, or change the base skin logo from the filesystem. This way
the
>>>> Color
>>>>> Themes will display the logo. Other ideas are welcomed.
>>>>>
>>>>> The description is technical I know, still there are so many ways
in
>>> XWiki
>>>> to change to logo and override it, that a warning is welcomed.
>>>
>>> Right now, I disagree with this proposal (I’d vote -1 if it were a
vote)
>>> since it doesn’t currently address
what happens to the other ways of
>>> changing the logo and it adds yet another way on top of the existing
> ones,
>>> making the situation even more complex…
>>>
>>> So for me we need to:
>>> 1) Rationalize the change of logo better in the proposal and explain
> what
>>> happens to the other places and explain in the proposal why the user
> would
>>> use one or the other of the ways. Do some ways get deprecated or not
> either?
>>> 2) Define what it means to change the logo in the proposed new Admin
UI.
>>>> Does it create a new skin? Does it modifies the DefaultSkin page and
>> attach
>>>> a logo to it? Does it modifies the currently selected Color Theme >> adds
>>>> a logo to it? Does it do something else?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It should change the filesystem logo.png/svg from the base skin OR
add
an
>>> attachment to the DefaultSkin' (which version is more easy
technically
-
defined
> I
>> guess the DefaultSkin attachment).
>> Being as the default logo for the DefaultSkin, this means it can be
>> inherited / overridden by the Color Themes.
>
> See my previous reply about this.
>
> So I now understand that your idea would be:
>
> Default system logo (Admin UI)
> |_ Skin logo (Skin)
> |_ Color Theme logo (CT) for the wiki
> |_ Space Skin logo (Skin)
> |_ Space Color Theme logo
>
> In words: if the current space has a CT defined and if that CT has a
logo
>> defined then use it, otherwise, if the current space has a skin and
>> that skin has a logo then use it, otherwise, if the current wiki has a
>> color theme defined and if it has a logo then use it, otherwise, if
the
>
current wiki has a skin defined and it has a logo then use it,
otherwise,
> if the default system logo is defined use it,
otherwise, use a default
> xwiki logo.
>
> However I don’t see why a Color Theme would inherit from the skin.
What’s
the
rationale? What additional use cases does it provide?
Well the use case is that I want to experiment with the colors and see
which one I like as the default colors. Also maybe I want to have for every
other ColorTheme available. I just the default logo once.
Again,
> nice if I want to change the logo, I just change it in one place, not every
other color theme that exists out there.
>
> See the list of use cases I started in the previous reply. Please add
new
>> use cases if you see some that I have missed.
>>
>> Note: The other issue with the above is that we’re missing nested >
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I also need some answers to my questions asked above such as "What
does
>> it
>>>> mean “at wiki or page level”? How do you do that? Using a custom
>>> Using a color theme?"
>>>
>>
>> The wiki/page level mention was because you can have a different
Skin/CT
>> with a different logo for that level. If
you think that is confusing,
we
>>> can rephrase it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Caty
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -Vincent
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Caty
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9 Feb 2018, at 14:34, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
>> valicac(a)gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As some of you know, in January we had another session of
>>>> tests
>>>>>>> performed. As a result of those tests, I have prioritized
[1]
some
>>> issues
>>>>>> that we might want to improve in our next 10.x+ Roadmaps.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One of the entries from that list is: "Create a dedicated
Logo
> section
>>> in
>>>>>> Administration".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Although we made some improvements in this area, users still
struggle
>>>> to
>>>>>>> find the Logo changing area (takes more than 3 minutes).
Plus > is
>>> a
>>>>>> lot of confusion between the Skin and ColorThemes overriding.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a proposal to explicitly have a Logo section inside the
> Themes
>>>>>> section of Administration
>>>>>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/
>>>>> IdeaChangeLogo#HSolution1-1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know what you think,
>>>>>> Caty
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/Usability/
>>>>> Tasks5/Prioritization/