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. 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. 4. If I have a space like "MySuperSpace", the space menu looks like "MYSPECIALSPACE" which I felt uncomfortable. This is just how I felt. Thanks. - Asiri On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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

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On 11/25/2009 09:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:

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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.

This was fixed in 2.0 thanks to Caleb, so it wasn't an issue anymore.

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.

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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.

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.

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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

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This is just how I felt.

Thanks.

- Asiri

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Vincent Massol<[email protected]> wrote:

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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

-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

I don't quite like them. - The icons are not suggestive enough. Why is Edit Class a box? Why is Export as RTF using the MSWord icon? Why is the Watchlist using the same icon as the adminster entries? These are just the top most annoying ones. - The need to scroll bugs me. It was much more convenient to have the menu in the same place. Sure, the alternative is to use the keyboard shortcuts, but I never do, and it's not something easy to figure out without reading the documentation. - I'm not sure using the database name as the menu name is a good idea. First, what do you do with a menu named GTLLMIPY? Second, how do you document it so that people can easily understand what you're talking about? Impatient people will just look at the pictures and see the XWIKI menu, which they don't have. On 11/25/2009 09:09 AM, Vincent Massol 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

-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

Hi, On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:

On 11/25/2009 09:54 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

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On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:

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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.

This was fixed in 2.0 thanks to Caleb, so it wasn't an issue anymore.

...

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.

We used to have that in XWiki Workspaces (actually we still do). In practices it looks weird to have a set of non-moving images right in the middle of your page, it feels like there's a display bug. In my experience it's hard getting accustomed to it (and I'm the one who insisted on having that in XWS in the first place).

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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.

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.

Another thing I was thinking about is that maybe in XE we should call this "HOME" or "WIKI" rather than "XWIKI" in order to make it more relevant to the user. While in XEM using the wiki name makes sense, in XE it sounds a bit weird...

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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.

For long space names, maybe we should trim them after 30-40 chars... Guillaume

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Thanks -Vincent

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This is just how I felt.

Thanks.

- Asiri

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Vincent Massol<[email protected]> wrote:

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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

-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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