15 Mar
2017
15 Mar
'17
10:46 a.m.
On 14 Mar 2017, at 17:45, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi devs,
Me and Marius worked on an improved Administration proposal.
It includes:
- categories/sections reorganization in order to priorities often used
sections;
- clearly describing the property and displaying default values;
- integrates a collapsible menu that will reduce scrolling;
- more polishing, standardization and consistency in styling;
You can read more and compare with the current version at:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/Administration9x
We want to implement the changes, so we ask for your vote and feedback.
My +1
+1 for the reorg with the rename of “Users” in “Users & Groups”. The new L&F is
nice too.
0 for the collapsing part of the menu + the extra tabs. I don’t like them too much since
they hide the subcategories and whereas before you could go to any admin section in one
click you now need 2 or 3 clicks (provided you know what section you need to click as
otherwise it’s a lot more clicks!).
So the proposal has a nicer L&F and the reorg is nice in general but I find it less
usable than before on the navigation aspect. Said differently it replaces scrolling by
hiding. Personally I was finding scrolling less an issue.
This could be alleviated in the future by an intelligent search suggest box that would
index all content from all admin UI pages (in order to take into account the content in
tabs).
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks,
Caty