5 Aug
2009
5 Aug
'09
5:07 p.m.
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Anca Paula Luca <ancapaula.luca(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote:
Me too. Hitting enter should behave in the same fashion as double-clicking
-> trigger "Next" (unless the user is on the last screen).
Also, for the case when the wysiwyg dialog is not a wizard (table, importer
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
I still think that keeping the tab's label as dialog box title is easier
since it doesn't require an additional rule (how should both things be
combined?). Clicking on something under the "Link" button opens a dialog box
called "Link" -> simple, easy, effective.
Hi Devs,
Anca asked me to finalize the overall look of dialog boxes in the WYSIWYG
so
that she can work on it and polish it for the 2.0
release. Right now the
issue is that we're using a different look for the link, image & macro
dialog boxes which poses a consistency problem.
I've been working with Cati on a proposal for the look of the overall box
-
not for the inner part of the box. Proposals for
the standardization of
the
inner part of the box will come later. The dialog
box uses a wizard-like
look and follows the vertical form principles proposed by Cati in a
previous
email (thus the primary action button at the
bottom left, to follow the
user's eye flow). Its "hidden" features are:
- Buttons can be in an enabled or disabled mode depending of what the
current step is
- All buttons are displayed all the time so that they don't move from
one
screen to the next
- Buttons' labels are configurable
- There is no "Cancel" button, the cross at the top right of the
dialog
box plays that role
- The title in the top bar doesn't change and its name is the same as
the
associated toolbar button (clicking on
"Link" opens a dialog box
called
"Link")
The user never clicks on just "Link", it is always a submenu item that it
chooses ("Wiki page", "Attached file", etc). I assume the dialog
title
should be
a combination of the two, since only the name of the submenu item is far
from
suggestive.
wdyt? - The
"Wizard Step Title" reflects what's happening at the current
step:
"Page Selection" , "Code
Macro" , "Image Selection"
- The description tells the user what to do at the current step:
"Select
the page to link to" , "Select the
image to insert" , "Fill in macro
parameters"
After discussion we came to the conclusion that the description will tell
the
user what will be the result of the current step, and not instructions
about how
to do it. All instructions will go next to the field in the form of the
wizard step.
Also this description can be skipped if the title is good enough, to avoid
redundancy.
- Double-clicking on an item (an image, a page
name) acts in the same
fashion as selecting it and clicking the "Next" button. If the
"Next"
button
is disabled at the current step,
double-clicking works as the primary
action
("Insert" , "Create")
Also, webforms usually are submitted when enter is hit in one of their
fields.
We also do this currently in our dialog forms. In the case when "Finish"
and
"Next" are both enabled, which one should be the one executed by enter?
I'd
go
for "Next" for consistency. dialogs for the moment), we have two options for the
wizard step title:
1/ keep the Wizard Step and Descriptions in place, to contain detailed
description of the action to be executed, for consistency reasons. While
the
dialog title will be the same as the toolbar button / menu clicked, the
Wizard
Step title will contain a more detailed description of the action and the
description will probably be missing most of the times since it's
redundant.
2/ we remove the top bar completely, as it currently is the case for the
table &
importer dialogs, to avoid crowding the dialogs with redundant information
(the
title of the dialog should be enough information, as it's only one action
and
that is the actual name of the action -- as opposed to wizard steps where
differentiation of various subactions is needed).
Guillaume's suggestion was for strong consistency, therefore 1/. I think
that,
while it could turn out useful, it can be confusing to have multiple titles
for
a dialog when they refer to the same action.
wdyt?
I'm still in favor of 1/ for consistency reasons. I think that if the
wording is done correctly, the redundancy can be kept to a minimum.
In general, we would love some feedback about the UI / UX of the wysiwyg
dialogs, things that should be polished for a final
version.
Indeed, please feel free to join the discussion and shed some light on our
ideas :-)
Guillaume
Thanks,
Anca
--
Guillaume Lerouge
Product Manager - XWiki
Skype: wikibc
Twitter: glerouge
http://guillaumelerouge.com/
The mockups are located at:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/GenericMacroDialog
WDYT?
Guillaume
_______________________________________________
devs mailing list
devs(a)xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs