25 Jun
2008
25 Jun
'08
9:59 p.m.
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi fellow XWikiers,
I've been spending some time thinking about the new User Interface we might
want to build for the new WYSIWYG editor. I've posted the ideas I gathered
so far on this page :
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface .
I'd be glad to get some feedback either on the list or in comments right on
the page in order to see whether any given approach clinches or clashes with
your own conceptions of a great rich text editor.
Please bear in mind that I'll probably be adding content to the page on a
regular basis in days to come in order to account for the feedback received
- if any.
In case of an absence of feedback, well, I guess we'll be able to assume
safely that the new WYSIWYG editor doesn't matter that much in the end and
stop its development altogether ;-)
Looking forward hearing from you guys (and girls),
Option 1: -1. Bad UI design, I don't like toolbars. Reminds me of
http://thor.info.uaic.ro/~sergiu.dumitriu/hci/L7/img/SciWriter_19.jpg
Option 2: +0.5. Cleaner, more organized than 1. Still, as the screenshot shows, the Insert
menu is
already too big.
Option 3: +0.55. Modern, goes the new MSOffice way. This is good, as in theory it enhances
productivity and offers a more intuitive way of organizing things. The ugly colored
screenshots have
the major disadvantage that they are not flexible. No other option fits in the Import
area.
A big -1 because enough people are annoyed by the new MS Office and the so called
"ribbon". +1,
since this negative trend is caused by the normal rejection of new and different things,
and it will
fade away soon. Small observation: are the actions visible enough? (save, undo...).
Anyway, all options require a careful thinking of what goes where, how many entries to
have, and how
are they organized. I'd be in favor of keeping the customization features to a
minimum. If you leave
a lot of make-up tools in there, people will be tempted to spend time on making things big
red and
blinky, instead of better organizing the content.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
