On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On 18 Apr 2017, at 13:54, Marius Dumitru Florea
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mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <
valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Some users have complained that the content actions are too abstract /
> ambiguous and they don't see/understand them so they don't know how to
Edit
or Create
content in the first minutes of interaction.
More details about this problem can be found at
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaLabeledActions
There I've suggested 2 possible proposals:
Proposal 1: JS Tooltips
Proposal 2: Labeled actions
Forcing labeled actions for all the users may annoy the power users. Some
options:
* make it configurable (from the user profile)
* show labels only for simple users
* show labels when accessibility mode is enabled from the user profile
* modify the tour to make the user edit the home page (interactive tour),
inviting him to click on the content actions buttons (at least the edit
one).
Proposal 3: Use Labels instead of Icons, as it’s done by wikipedia.
Personally I don’t like proposal 2 or 3 and if they’re made configurable
then it would be the same issue since we would need to pick a default and
we would force regular xwiki users to have to change their settings which
isn’t nice.
Regarding simple vs advanced users, I’m not sure it’s the problem. I’ve
experimented this over the week end (see my other mail) and the issue was
locating this action bar and understanding it. But once it was understood
it was very easy to use for the user and he actually liked that it wasn’t
taking too much visual space.
So I think it’s only a discoverability issue and not a
regular usage issue.
I agree.
Another option would be that when the user hovers over the action icons in
the default content for Main.WebHome, (for example if he tries to click on
them), that we would highlight the content menu very visibly or something
like that.
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks,
Marius
> Which one do you prefer?
>
> Thanks,
> Caty
>
> P.S: This was a recurrent topic and we change several things over the
> years. I guess we will continue iterating until we reach the sweet spot
:)