11 Aug
2009
11 Aug
'09
6:18 p.m.
I think we should rename "Actions" back to
"More Actions" since the
second is more common (I can think of gmail for example).
i'm ok with that.
I would also like to have "Create" instead of the "Add" action. You
can *add
* comments and tags, but I think it's more appropriate to *create* pages.
1. We need to
decide the way we handle the actions we are able to do
(depending on the rights we have): enable/disable them or hide them.
Why do we keep the "view" entry ?
I personally use "edit" to see the source of a page, may be others do the
same.
Anyway it's still useful to people without edit rights, in this case
we could keep "edit" activated and display the source with a message
saying something like "You need to login to edit this page, etc" or
"You're not allowed to edit this page" depending on the situation.
2. You can select to have an simple or advanced menu
(View and Edit
submenus
In simple mode "view" and "edit" are not buttons, but actually tabs,
you
change the view (tab) from one action to another, they aren't form buttons.
affected)
I wouldn't like that we use a tab layout for buttons that are actually
not tabs, for example "view" and "edit" in simple mode. The menu must be revamped but I'd prefer that we
stick to the dropdown
layout since it allows:
- to mix single buttons and dropdown lists
in my opinion is the same thing, just the aligment (horizontally,
vertically) is different. The problems with dropdowns I understood that it's
not well supported if you don't have JS activated, and also dropdowns can
block some of the page content.
The advantage of the dropdown is when you have many items in the menu - but
it's not really the case and anyway menus that are very crowded are hard to
use.
Another thing is that using this kind of menu, you integrate the tabs in
Edit (Wiki, WYSYWIG, Objects ...) with the menu, instead of having the
panel. This way you give an unique access point to the editing.
- to use icons more easily
in the mockups icons are not presented, but I don't see how the dropdown
menu can have a better support for icons than then horizontal menu. it's the
same thing, we could have also icons in this kind of menu.
- to create categories more easily (for example in
"Actions")
you can have categories also in horizontal menus.
Thanks for all your comments,
Caty