10 Apr
2014
10 Apr
'14
12:18 p.m.
Hi Caty,
On 10 Apr 2014 at 11:46:52, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
(valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
Hi,
One of the objectives of 6.0 is to review the existing applications on
extensions.xwiki.org, improve them and see how they would integrate in the
new Flamingo skin (while also making improvements suggestions).
This mail covers the Flamingo integration for the Forum Application.
You can see the proposal at:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign
Any feedback is welcomed.
Very nice, I like it! Thanks for this proposal :)
Some comments/questions:
* On the home page
(http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/…),
the title is “Forum” and then there’s a subtitle “All Forums” with a “Add forum” button. I
was wondering if it wouldn’t be nicer to have “All Forums” as the title and instead of the
“Add forum” button, use the “+Add” button just above to let the user add a new forum (thus
using the template provider feature)? That would make the UI even more pure.
* I find a forum’s description a bit small and not visible enough compared to the list of
topics: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/…
Maybe we could do something to make it stand out more?
* When viewing all answers (for example
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ForumApplicationDesign/…),
each answer has a textarea visible to reply to a given answer. Mabye these textarea should
not be shown by default and they should appear only when you click a “Reply” button?
* I think we’re missing a compact view of all posts in a topic/forum, using a livetable
for example. For example: http://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/0-25271-0-1-0-1-0-dota-2.htm
or http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=3
* When listing all topics you seem to be cropping the topic description. We’ve noticed in
the blog app that automatic cropping doesn’t work so if we want that we’ll need to ask the
user to provide a short version and a long version description for a topic IMO.
* Should answers be implemented as page comments but styled differently than traditional
comments? That would make sense to me. I noticed on your screenshots that the extradoc
tabs at the bottom is not displayed.
Thanks!
-Vincent
Thanks,
Caty