Re: [xwiki-devs] XWatch UI Proposal

Hi Cati and devs, sorry for the late response, here are some of my thoughts: * First of all, I particularly like the solution you found with the in-place forms (the add feed form, the tags, comments, etc). Keep in mind that, if needed, we can devise a way of disabling one or more of the panels (feeds panel, articles or filters) to simulate a modal dialog with an in-place form, so feel free to dream on about this kind of solutions, even if you need modal behaviour. * Second, I have some observations to make regarding the scalability of your proposal: - keep in mind that it needs to be perfectly internationalizable: all the text should be displayable in different languages and should fit (I am thinking here at the tab names in the filters panel, for example, about the small space you would have to fit the add-edit feed / add-edit group forms). By the way, are you thinking about keeping the current design with fixed column sizes (200px side columns) and article panel expandable or are you thinking about percent scaling, à la Google reader? - the tags and keywords in the text analysis can be any word and potentially any size, so I seriously doubt they will fit properly in 2 columns as you printed them (via Marta) * Third, you should study the possibility of keeping icons consistency with XWiki (e.g. edit, delete icons) (via Marta) * Speaking of icons, I have a personal problem with the "go to original article" icon. It's really hard to tell what it represents (although it is suggestive enough, once you figure it out) and it's very hard to describe in a manual / guide / tutorial, otherwise then showing it. * Potentially, at one point, there will be some actions that only an administrator of XWatch could do: articles archiving setup, parameters setup (no. of articles in the list, no. of tags in the tag cloud, etc), and others. Besides this, client customizations would potentially need such admin actions too. I would like to see your opinion about an administration panel/placeholder in your interface proposal (that would contain some activities and would easily admit other activities to be added "transparently"). In particular, where do you see this kind of "control panel" placed? In the reader interface or in a wiki page, accessible from both the reader interface and the portal? * For article "deletion": we (me and Cati and Guillaume) had a somewhat long fight on the chat about naming this action "delete" or not. Currently, the name of this action is "trash" and it is more of a "vote-against" than a delete: it is the complementary action of "flag" and its result is that the article is no longer displayed in the list by default, this must be explicitly requested by the user from the filters. But the article (wiki doc & object containing the data) is not at all deleted from the wiki. In contrast, the feeds deletion, groups deletion, keywords deletion do delete the corresponding objects from the wiki. I would prefer a "vote-against" like name for the article action, rather than a name that would suggest deletion. WDYT? As a side note, we could think about integrating the xwiki trash bin in watch, to have recoverable data. Cati, thanks for your work xwikiers, thanks for your feedback Happy coding, Anca Luca