On Jun 28, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Evelina Vrabie wrote:
Hi,
It's never late to give feedback, you're welcome any time :) * I personally agree with you that the icons are a little bit to big, but this can be fixed for the RC. * Yes, you are right about the width of the tables, this problem will also be solved before the final release. * However, I don't agree with your idea about modifying users and groups sections. I didn't understand much from your proposal below, since some of the phrases aren't finished. Btw, it used to be Users & Groups category together but we decided it's best to separate them, especially when you have a very large wiki, with hundreds of users and groups to search for. More, I don't understand your concept of adding a group to a user and setting rights by clicking on the group's name...it just doesn't seem natural to me. So I find your proposal a bit weird, but this is only my opinion.
Actually I agree with Squirrel on one point which is that it's more natural that when you want to add a user to a group you go to that user and click on a button to add groups for that users. That way you'll also see the current groups the user belongs too which we cannot see right now and that's a pain. It also scales much better since there are more users in a group than groups for a user. Also software that I can think of know also do this. However this is a bit of work so we won't have the time to do this in 1.5. Let's discuss it here to see if others agree but this is a feature I'd very much like too. So WDYT? Thanks -Vincent
* What exactly do you find puzzling about space administration? It contains (for now) 3 entries: the Presentation (where you can customize the layout at space level), the rights to be set at space level, and panel wizard, which allows you do choose how to display the panels (right, left, none or both). It it seems cluttered, you can just remove both panel columns and make more room. In a future release, these space sections will include more application admin pages, like the Wiki Administration contains now (Blog, Photos etc).
Thanks, Evelina
Squirrel wrote:
Hi guys,
I know, it's kind of late to give you a general feedback for the new admin interface, nevertheless I'd like to point some things out:
* The icons are nice, but way too big (tested on 1280x800, FF3, Opera & Konqueror) * In the 'Rights' section the two tables don't have the same width, though the same content and space is unnecessarily wasted (this is true for most sections) .. * I miss some structure, categories...everything seems now cluttered...I know, underneath not much changed, but compared with the previous surface it's now quite obvious to me. Ie. the 'User' and the 'Group' section. They just make no sense anymore. I guess you could easily integrate the 'Group' section into the 'User' section and call it 'User Administration'. Some clickable filter (titles like 'username' 'groupname' etc.) and a search input-field. And instead editing the group and add a new user to the group, you add the group(s) to the user. If you edit a group (click on the groups name) you will then not adding users but change the rights for the group ('Rights' section)....if you add a group you give it a name and set the groups rights. * I miss a content overview...this interferes somehow with spaces, pages and rights... * The space preferences are (still) puzzling to me, although I don't have a better solution in my sleeves...
Hmm...I don't have enough time *right now* to explain in deep what I mean...actually I'm not quite sure about what I mean either...it's just a feeling that there is something not quite right...I don't know. I'm sorry I'm this late with my input...
I hope it's not useless and if so, feel free to ignore this post ;-)
I'm testing now the functional part of it.
Cheers, Squirrel