Nice job! my remarks: - I think also the "recent changes" section is a bit "oversized" compared to the others sections because when you open the page, you only see this at first sight. - The number of items in recent changes should be reduced (it is already possible as you said in a previous mail) so that the recent changes is not too tall compared to Spaces+Tags and so that you can guess there are other contents below recent changes without scrolling too much. - Maybe default height for one recent change could be reduced a bit by putting the name just beside the photo for example... I like this size of photo... - considering balance, I would prefer a smaller column for recent changes... not 50/50 but 60/40 for example... this is a personal opinion :) - I agree the avatar presentation brings something interesting. Pascal On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Marta Girdea <[email protected]>wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote:
Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Marta Girdea <[email protected]> wrote:
This is starting to look really nice, I particularly like the fact that the recent changes are displayed in a more comprehensive manner.
I have a few comments though: 1/ The two columns look a bit unbalanced. Isn't there some other important information the user would like to see on in the dashboard, that could fill the empty space? Or maybe we could reduce the number of displayed recent changes?
I think that the average wiki contains more spaces than incubator (way more in some cases). You can try to reduce the number of items in recent changes by passing changesNb=15 in the URL (this variable can be set in the document too).
2/ There are some scalability problems: on the 'Recent changes' column, if the document name is long, 'see modifications' that appears on hover shows up on the next row and pushes the rest of the content down, and this is not pretty. What could be done is use an icon instead of text, and this way we'd have consistency with the 'Spaces' section.
It's not pretty but I've asked for feedback during the devel process and since this onhover link vary a lot (link vs. ajax) between items (page vs. comment) it seemed to be way more comprehensive to write it and use visual hints (color + [+] and [-]) than to use images.
3/ I don't think the user's avatar is a crucial information to display in Recent changes. Also, too few or too many document changes per user will result in empty spaces. Maybe reducing the image's size would partly solve the problem.
This is the first negative feedback about avatars, I agree it's not crucial but it allow to put a face on changes which is a good thing I think.
Yes, power to people! Avatars makes a big difference in the tool adoption by its users, in my opinion. (And displaying it other places than user own profile encourages people to actually upload their picture).
I agree, that's why I didn't suggest removing the avatars, just making them smaller. This wasn't negative feedback on the avatars, but a comment on the fact that they are way too visible comparing to the rest (at least on my display).
Jerome.
I'm afraid that a lot of avatars will not look pretty with a height smaller than 60px.
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