Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Marta Girdea <[email protected]> wrote:
This is starting to look really nice, I particularly like the fact that the recent changes are displayed in a more comprehensive manner.
I have a few comments though: 1/ The two columns look a bit unbalanced. Isn't there some other important information the user would like to see on in the dashboard, that could fill the empty space? Or maybe we could reduce the number of displayed recent changes?
I think that the average wiki contains more spaces than incubator (way more in some cases). You can try to reduce the number of items in recent changes by passing changesNb=15 in the URL (this variable can be set in the document too).
2/ There are some scalability problems: on the 'Recent changes' column, if the document name is long, 'see modifications' that appears on hover shows up on the next row and pushes the rest of the content down, and this is not pretty. What could be done is use an icon instead of text, and this way we'd have consistency with the 'Spaces' section.
It's not pretty but I've asked for feedback during the devel process and since this onhover link vary a lot (link vs. ajax) between items (page vs. comment) it seemed to be way more comprehensive to write it and use visual hints (color + [+] and [-]) than to use images.
3/ I don't think the user's avatar is a crucial information to display in Recent changes. Also, too few or too many document changes per user will result in empty spaces. Maybe reducing the image's size would partly solve the problem.
This is the first negative feedback about avatars, I agree it's not crucial but it allow to put a face on changes which is a good thing I think. I'm afraid that a lot of avatars will not look pretty with a height smaller than 60px.
I agree the 60px version looks nicer. We don't have any mechanism for avatar thumbs (like something a la Facebook), so most avatars do not look very good in small versions, like the 40px now on incubator. Jerome.
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