Hi, in order to keep the work going on the new WYSIWYG editor we need to decide which UI we want to have for the editor. Interface proposals & explanations are available on the following page : http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface Here are the choices, please cast your vote in front of the one you like best : - Proposal Number 1 : - Proposal Number 2 : - Proposal Number 3 : - Proposal Number 4 : Guillaume Please note that this is a vote for an interface concept : the eventual colors, icons and look & feel will be reviewed and improved by a designer prior to the final implementation. Thanks, Guillaume On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi,
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I like it. However, the way we group the features in the menu bar is very important. I think we should find the right balance between putting every option in the menu and putting every option in the associated dialog/wizard.
In some cases we may have an option that is both available from a drop-down menu in the menu bar and through a tab in a modal dialog box - that's not an issue per se. Let's take the example of links : when using the full-fledged editor, you'll be able to access some features from both the menu and the dialog box, while in light editor mode the link button will trigger the dialog box right away and the only way to choose a different mode will be through tabs in the dialog box.
For instance I think it would be wrong to have an Import menu with entries for any file format you could think of, as it would be wrong to have a single Import button opening a dialog/wizard with options for any of those file formats. One solution I can think of is to have a menu entry like "Import Office Documents" which opens a dialog/wizard from where you can select what kind of Office document you want to import.
We could do the same thing for the import menu that for macros -> use 2 levels of drop-down menu (primary : MS Office / Open Office / Other , then secondary : Word / Excel)
In the same way, we could have a single "Link to Document" menu entry with an option on the dialog to create the document if it doesn't exist.
I added the "new document" menu option because I think it makes things simpler for basic wiki users (who might not be aware that they can create a link towards a page that does not exist yet). We'll have some choices to make during the last stage of the design, but if the overall look & feel is right it shouldn't be too hard.
Guillaume, you should know that in the end the layout (what features and in what order) of the tool bar, menu bar, tab bar, or whatever we'll decide on, will not be hard-coded but read from the configuration. For instance, the layout of the tool bar could be specified as:
"Bold Italics Strikethrough Underlined | BulletedList NumberedList | ..."
Cool, this way it will be easier to experiment with various configurations once the editor gets into user testing mode :-)
Guillaume