Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi fellow XWikiers, I've been spending some time thinking about the new User Interface we might want to build for the new WYSIWYG editor. I've posted the ideas I gathered so far on this page : http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface .
I'd be glad to get some feedback either on the list or in comments right on the page in order to see whether any given approach clinches or clashes with your own conceptions of a great rich text editor.
Please bear in mind that I'll probably be adding content to the page on a regular basis in days to come in order to account for the feedback received - if any.
In case of an absence of feedback, well, I guess we'll be able to assume safely that the new WYSIWYG editor doesn't matter that much in the end and stop its development altogether ;-)
Looking forward hearing from you guys (and girls),
Option 1: -1. Bad UI design, I don't like toolbars. Reminds me of http://thor.info.uaic.ro/~sergiu.dumitriu/hci/L7/img/SciWriter_19.jpg Option 2: +0.5. Cleaner, more organized than 1. Still, as the screenshot shows, the Insert menu is already too big. Option 3: +0.55. Modern, goes the new MSOffice way. This is good, as in theory it enhances productivity and offers a more intuitive way of organizing things. The ugly colored screenshots have the major disadvantage that they are not flexible. No other option fits in the Import area. A big -1 because enough people are annoyed by the new MS Office and the so called "ribbon". +1, since this negative trend is caused by the normal rejection of new and different things, and it will fade away soon. Small observation: are the actions visible enough? (save, undo...). Anyway, all options require a careful thinking of what goes where, how many entries to have, and how are they organized. I'd be in favor of keeping the customization features to a minimum. If you leave a lot of make-up tools in there, people will be tempted to spend time on making things big red and blinky, instead of better organizing the content. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/