Re: [xwiki-devs] New search admin UI and icon

Hi, New version improved: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Ciprian/Search%20icon - neutral colors used - old text replaced with "xwiki" - search button inline with the edit field

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:11, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > >> >> On May 12, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Ciprian Amaritei wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I made a search admin icon. You can see it on: >>> >>> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Ciprian/Search%20icon >> > > +1 for version2 > > >>> >>> Please take a look and give some suggestions. >> >> Looks good but 2 questions/remarks: > > - why does it say xwiki.cfg? IMO saying "xwiki" should be enough, or maybe >> "xwiki search" >> > > +1 > > - re the color we should stay neutral so that it fits well with all themes >> and with the rest of the admin icons >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> Thanks, >>> Ciprian. >>> >>> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Thomas Mortagne >>> <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote: >>> >>>> Hi devs, >>>> >>>> I committed the new search admin UI and fixed some issuse, should work >> well >>>> now. >>>> >>>> Some notes: >>>> * the actual configuration is put in a document automatically created >>>> if it does not exist so that you can upgrade the whole app without >>>> having to worry about what you will overwrite >>>> * it's using Configurable system but just to be "injected" as admin >>>> app, would be nice to be able to have some reusable code when you need >>>> custom UI but still we some standard configuration style in the middle >>>> of it >>>> * there is a new central search page (Main.Search) which include the >>>> proper engine search page depending of the configuration >>>> >>>> Missing things are: >>>> * an nice icon: would be cool to have someone else than me on that >>>> * rename "web" into "database", i just moved the page yet but "web" is >>>> not very nice and i need to change it. I'm just a bit worried about >>>> backward compatibility, i think i will create a DatabaseSearch page >>>> and redirect WebSearch to Search probably to make old apps use the >>>> right default search engine instead of the old hardcoded websearch >>>> default page >>>> * make number of indexing element refresh automatically using ajax: >>>> i'm working on something else right and it's not urgent but i will >>>> take care of it (I'm not begging for it if someone want to take it ;)) >>>> * write documentation for it in xwiki.org (especially about how to > use >>>> indexing UI), about that do we have some clean way to put >>>> documentation tooltips or something nice to explain to the use what he >>>> can put in the fields and how it's working ? >>>> >>>> Would be cool that some people review it (pretty sure there is typos I >>>> did not seen, there is always...). >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> -- >>>> Thomas Mortagne >>>> _________________