25 Nov
2009
25 Nov
'09
11:46 a.m.
On 11/25/2009 09:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
A possible problem would be that for a newcommer, on a fresh
installation, the Administer entry is even harder to find. Lots of users
didn't see it when it was in the top menu directly, why would they
search for it in the XWIKI menu?
On the other hand, the top menu is a bit more visible now, and because
the default wiki is called XWIKI, it's pretty normal to try to
Administer <- XWIKI.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
This was fixed in 2.0 thanks to Caleb, so it wasn't an issue anymore.
Hi,
I've had some difficulties coping with the new menu structure, here
are my
observations:
1. Edit / Export / More Actions menus are cool :)
2. I really miss the sliding menu bar. Now I have to scroll to the
top of
the page whenever I want to do something. May be it's just my
resistance to
change, but I felt uncomfortable.
One thing to note: the scrolling menu was raising problems on unix
platforms AFAIR. Now the new page action menu would be awkward to
scroll since it's
only taking a portion of the horizontal space and it's not at the top.
Note that one important issue that was raised to us was that the
action menu wasn't enough visible at the top. We've addressed it with
the new page level action menu.
Maybe you could suggest what you'd like to have instead? (although
it's a bit late to radically change everything, small adjustments
could still be made).
I liked having a vertical icon menu floating next to the page content,
on the left.
3. I'm
unable to understand the basis for grouping create space /
watch /
admin actions under xwiki menu. Made me a little confused when I was
looking
for administration link. I like the old administration menu.
The top menu is about actions not related to the current page. This is
the big change that we've brought: separation of page actions from non
page actions.
The top menu allows to perform actions on the wiki as a whole or
actions on the current space.
Administration is either a wiki action or a space action depending if
you want to administer the wiki or the space.
I also have pb with the change of location of the Administration link
but I'm pretty sure it's because of the habit I have to break of
looking for it at the top right, and that very soon I'll automatically
look for it in the new place. 4. If I have a
space like "MySuperSpace", the space menu looks like
"MYSPECIALSPACE" which I felt uncomfortable.
Using lower cases for the menus in general is something I'd also like
to see to be able to compare and verify if it's better or worse.
Thanks
-Vincent
> This is just how I felt.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Asiri
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Vincent Massol<vincent(a)massol.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi XWiki lovers :),
>>
>> By now you've probably seen the new menu bars that we have introduced
>> in XE 2.1M1. If not, please try XE 2.1M1 or check the release notes
>> at
>> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise21M1
>>
>> Since the action menu has been heavily reworked we're interesting in
>> gathering feedback and thus ensure that you like the new menu as much
>> as we do.
>>
>> If you have some problems with them please let us know ASAP (since
>> the
>> 2.1 final release is approaching fast - early December).
>>
>> So whether you like them or not, please let us know what you think
>> about them.
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Enjoy XWiki
>> -Vincent on behalf of the XWiki dev team