On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:34, Niels Mayer <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>
>> The proximity or default actions associated with the menus "edit"  
>> "show"
>> "print" "action" or "watch" are often accidentally triggered by  
>> careless
>> mouse-clicks intended for the "browser-tabs" or "toolbar", usually  
>> situated
>> directly above the document in many browsers. I also think it is  
>> unaesthetic
>> to have the current menus overlay"active space" in the LHS panels.  
>> It seems
>> like the new design still has a lot of action very "close" to the
>> browser-tabs and toolbar, which can lead to unintended browser  
>> accidents.
>>
>> I'd like to see the menu positioned away from the very top of the  
>> window,
>> and instead, be placed at the bottom ofthe 220x70
>> header-image /xwiki/bin/download/XWiki/DefaultSkin/*.jpg, over the
>> "breadcrumbs" displaying the
>> path to the document. Alternately, consider that the right-hand- 
>> side of the
>> top of the document is under-used, and the left-hand-side is  
>> cluttered: you
>> end up overlaying menus on the left-had-side column should that  
>> feature be
>> enabled.
>>
>
> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Skin20P1/generalP01.png

Nice. Some questions:

* Shouldn't we also display the creation date next to "Created by" at  
the bottom of the page?
* There's no longer any way to quickly jump to History or Information  
tabs when you're at the top of the page (and especially for long pages)?

Thanks
-Vincent

>
> More about the skin proposal at http://markmail.org/message/nagihrc2xqpzw4dz

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