Re: [xwiki-devs] Home Page - Use cases, proposals, what we have until now and what we want to achieve

Hi. = Proposal 1 = Still too technical IMO. The first time you edit a page, you edit either the Sandbox or the Main page. When you do it, you expect to learn once for all how to edit a page. But what happens: you are not editing a page but using the Dashboard application. Even worse: you are not using the dashboard macro, you are including it via a macro and you cannot change it directly in the WYSWYG editor. Conclusion: too much concepts to learn and nothing feels "natural". We are far far away from the "iPhone experience" where everything feels so natural: start an application, scroll inside a window, resize an image... I think the natural way to discover a wiki is (in this order): 1 - Learn to edit a page 2 - Then learn what is a space and a wiki 3 - Discover the other content (ie: navigation) 4 - Learn how to use the other applications 5 - Customize the home page Moving from one step to the other should be easy. That is how I expect a wiki to work, and this was basically the first things I have done when I have started XWiki the first time (+ going to the administration to discover all the options). = Proposal 2 = It is a bit like a workaround. Everything is complex but we offer an helper to easily replace the content of the home page. It does not fix the problem we have with the dashboard application or the wysiwyg editor, but it is a bit less terrible that what we have today. = Proposal 3 = To me it is the best option. A very simple page (KISS) that explains what the wiki is, and that the user is not afraid to edit (like the Sandbox) even if we should encourage the user to use the sandbox to do her tests. The user could still go to the dashboard application to enjoy all its features, and it could make it more clear that the Dashboard is a special application with a special editing : it is on its own space and we discover it after having learnt how to do basic stuffs. It does not fix all the use cases though. = Proposal 4 = Retro-compatibility issue but I like it + a button on every page "set me as the main page" (like the "fork me on github" buttons). But this proposal is not enough. = Proposal 5 = I like it. Even if I don't like the wizards in general, I think it is still the best option regarding the complexity of XWiki. = Conclusion = To me the solution is a mix of P3, P4 and P5. Of course P1 should be fixed too, but it is not the priority to make XWiki easier to use. Thanks, Guillaume