Hi Vincent 2014-04-10 12:18 GMT+02:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>:
Hi Caty,
On 10 Apr 2014 at 11:46:52, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected])) 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/f...), 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'm +1 to add a UI extension in the Add menu, but -0 for using the template provider feature. With this features, the templates are listed when you do "Create Page", but when you create a forum or a topic, you are not supposed to know that you will create a wiki page. Actually, when you create a forum, do you create space or a page?
* 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/d... 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/h...), 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
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