Hi,

Yesterday, we had a discussion on IRC about removing the Navigation
panel from right menu in the default XE menu. We all (Sergiu, Marta,
Catalin and me) agree to remove it and thus I've gone ahead with it
and it's now removed. With this email I'd like to make sure this is
ok with everyone.

I have added a new Panel called Quick Links which presents links to
the most important pages on the wiki.

Now I'm having some second thoughts. The Quick Links is great to
navigate in the default wiki. The issue I have is the following:
- We have a Create Panel and thus users are going to use it to create
pages. This means their pages are not going to be linked from an
existing page and thus the only way to browse them will be either
though the Search or through the Index page/Treeview page.

I think this is not enough as it's too long to require users to click
on Index and search for their pages to access them. Of course they
should create a navigation (as we're doing on xwiki.org for example)
but they might need some practices before realising this.

I think I'd be ok to add again the Navigation panel but we should
exclude by default all the pages that have a quick links.

WDYT? Any better idea?

<some time pass/>

Ah I have another idea. We could have a Navigation Panel showing
pages that have no link to them (we need that anyway and we need to
add that to the AllDocs page too). In that way any page that is
linked could be accessed through their navigation and pages that are
not linked can still be accessed easily. This should try to encourage
users to create navigations without penalizing them . WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

PS: I've just had an idea and I think it would be a killer
feature... :) What about adding a shortcut so that on any page you
can type ctrl+P (or ctrl+D or whatever other shortcut) and it would
present a text field in the middle of the page allowing you to enter
the name of the page you want to navigate to. It would work exactly
as it works on IntelliJ IDEA (Ctrl+N) so you can type some letters
and it'll propose pages. Even better, if the user hits the right
arrow key, it would provide some actions for that page: view, edit,
rename, delete with view being the default action so ctrl+P + Enter
opens the page in view mode and ctrl+P + right arrow + down arrow +
Enter opens the page in edit mode, etc. I'm very excited by the
idea... WDYT?

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