[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Overhaul of the administration, layout

[Jean-Vincent Drean]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu at xwiki.com> wrote:
> Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
>> Admin in view mode, without a left menu :
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministrationLayout2
>
> +0, the advantage is that it provides a familiar interface. The downside is that it does not
> indicate in any way that this is an advanced manipulation of the wiki (administration). It looks
> like any other page, but is this entirely a good thing?

I think the header can be skinned to be more visible, it's also
supposed to contain the icon of the current section.

>> Admin in edit mode, without a navigation panel :
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministrationLayout4
>
> +1, because it maximizes the space efficiency, looks different from normal page view (indicating
> that this is something special), is consistent between different sections and the administration
> main page, and is L10N friendly.

I haven't thought about L10N which is indeed an important point. About
consistency, again, having the panel wizard in a special section looks
disturbing to me.

>> Other question, how do we display the space selector :
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministrationSpaceSelection
>
> Yet another option is to switch dynamically depending on the number of spaces. If there are less
> than, let's say, 30 space, display the full list. If there are more, then print the suggest code.
>
> But for the first release, I think that the easiest solution is the best. We can improve it later,
> it doesn't make sense to delay this further (1.5M2 should be released this week, and I'd like to see
> the new administration in it). So, +1 for a static list.

+1, with idealy an automatic switch developed in RC.

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Jean-Vincent Drean