Anca Paula Luca wrote: > Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: >> Vincent Massol wrote: >>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> The last proposal for links management in the wysiwyg editor can be >>>> found here : >>>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/NewWysiwygEditorInterface/wysiwyg%2Dsuite.pdf >>> Sounds nice. Some comments: >>> >>> * The link menu items should be improved IMO: >>> - I would put adding an external link at the bottom since it's not >>> the most used one >>> - The labels should be improved. I don't know if "wanted page" is >>> obvious (it wasn't for me) >>> * The screenshots are missing wiki selection (for multi wiki installs) >>> * I'm not sure I like the wizard like approach, i.e. having to select >>> some value before selecting others. I think I would have preferred a >>> single screen but that's me only. >> I'm not into the wizard approach also. One reason is indeed the fact >> that I have to step through 3 dialogs or so in order to insert an >> internal link. Another reason is that the solution with extended lists >> is not scalable at all. The Main space on xwiki.org has more than 100 >> pages (I discovered this after I killed next.dev.curriki by trying to >> view the space index for XWiki space..) so scrolling through these 100 >> pages is a pain. Why not using filterable combo boxes? > > Wizards seem indeed a little too much, at least the way I see things, that > the > link should be something quite fast to add. I was thinking about suggest > boxes > since *the user should know already something about where he wants to link*. > He > will very very very rarely need to see *all* pages / spaces to choose one > (it's > not like he's picking randomly!) > > My extreme approach for this would be a suggest in which the user would write > something like: > <wikiName>:<SpaceName>.<PageName> > and he would have suggestions for each of the 3 fields. > > Now I am very aware that this might seem cryptic for a lot of users so just 3 > suggest fields could do it. This can also help with: > * not loading the whole list of spaces / pages, since we could load > suggestions > only after we got some hints from the user (the first letter, for example) > * allowing the user to insert a page that does not exist in the same input as > an > existing page/space, thus transparently creating a link to a new page (I'm > not > really sure we want that, though)
Forgot to mention, suggest boxes is almost the same thing as the filterable combo boxes, in the end, something that would allow you to type and see the matches for what you type, but also show you the whole list if you really, really want to see it. > > Happy coding, > Anca Luca > >>> * It's missing the ability to specify any number of parameters (for >>> advanced usages) >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
