Hi, Having page name and page title is VERY disturbing for end users. We should in one way or another merge (not make accessible for end user) page name and page title.
IMO this is a major usability concern. I logged a jira for the purpose: XE-907 see below. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > This is a thread to discuss what kind of title behavior we want in the > future. I've listed some topics I consider open below. Could you give me > your opinion about them? > > 1) Should we force titles to be mandatory by default > For content pages, it does not make sense to have a page without a title (it is like someone with no name!). And since we don't have page type feature I guess the answer is "title should be mandatory" for all type of pages. > > 2) Should we merge page names and titles in the UI (ie only expose titles > and compute page names based on it) > This is needed. If we don't want that for all users we could enable page name and page title separation based on user type. > > 3) Do we want titles to be generated from content if the title is empty or > not. If 1) is agreed then there'll always be a title set so this is probably > not needed > If we choose 1) then I would say that page title should be input by user and not generated. > > 4) Should we allow wiki syntax in the title field and make that field a > textarea rather than a single line string (to allow scripts to generate > titles, this is useful for applications for example). Note that currently > the title field can only contain velocity and no wiki syntax AFAIK. > As you say, we are already able to type velocity syntax in page titles which is enough IMO. Unless there is use case to illustrate wiki syntax in page title, I am not sure we should work on that. > > Any other topic to discuss related to titles? > Just like Denis mentions, space pretty name is closely related to this topic. Application Within Minutes also has some topics with page names. > > 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
