Hi Caty, On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote:
Hi,
Since XE 3.0M2 we have a new administration look ( http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise...).
There was a debate if the forms should be full width or not.
*Variants*: 1) *Partial Width* (current): http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful... 2) *Full Width*: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful...
Big +1 for 2). Note that an example with the "Presentation" screen is even more telling since there are more textareas/string fields. Note that currently the partial width is not good since it's 50% and when you resize for a smaller screen it stays at 50% making fields harder and harder to read. I'm ok if we decide to go 100% for all controls except for select boxes.
*Test*: You can test this "partial"/"full" width on your resolution by removing "half" class from "<form class='xform half"" definition.
*Considerations*: - When voting please consider that the width will be set for small and high resolutions (that until we will improve our skin to detect the resolutions change). - You should consider how form controls look (readability, usability) on different sizes, like <select>, input, textarea, etc.
*Other Solutions*: A. The problem is that on large resolution is hard to read the controls because the form are too wide - on small resolution there is unused space. A solution would be to use CSS media queries and adjust the width for smaller resolutions. B. Another solution would be to use the additional space given by the partial width and provide some extra help for the sections, see smaller resolution: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful... higher resolution: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Polls/AdministrationFormsful...
*Vote*: You can use the poll made for this vote: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Polls/AdministrationFormsfullwid... or if you don't have an account on incubator, just reply to this mail. Please cast you votes.
Voted there too. Thanks -Vincent