On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Denis, > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I was just reading the release notes about the latest 4.2 release, and I > > would like to share my thoughts about the new experimental upgrade > wizard: > > > > 1) During the first step, I found the labels of the button "Skip" and > > "Cancel" to be potentially misleading. I quickly make the analogy with a > > typical application upgrade wizard on my Mac, which say "Skip this > version" > > or "Remind me later". But this is exactly the contrary, "Skip" here means > > "Remind me later", and "Cancel" means "Skip this version". So I propose > to > > use more explicit labels, either those proposed above or any other that > > avoid the confusion. > > I agree that these two buttons can be misleading, that's why I added a > hint message in the first (welcome) step and also tool tips (on mouse > hover) but I guess they can be easily overlooked. I'm open to change > their labels. One of the reasons I didn't use a multi word label is > because it doesn't look good in upper case, and that's the style we > use on buttons.. > Do not really understand why multi words in uppercase is an issue, and it is for sure a less important issue than having a misleading solution. Having tooltips is nice, but we should not rely on it IMO. > Caty had a few ideas on how to replace these two buttons with > something more intuitive but I wasn't fully convinced :) I'm sure > she's eager to show them to you. > I agree without, I am not really convinced either, but I would still prefer the checkbox proposal from Cathy to the current situation. > > > > > 2) During the second step, the extensions that are incompatible but do > not > > have a potential update seems to not be listed. Once again, this could be > > misleading, since you naturally expect the wizard to have proposed the > > whole solution for your upgrade. I think that the wizard should also tell > > you which extension has been disabled for incompatibilities during this > > step. > > Me and Thomas talked about putting this in a separate step, the "clean > up" step, where the user can view and uninstall extensions that are no > longer supported (are invalid and don't have upgrades available). We > decided to leave this steps for later since the 4.2 release was > already delayed. > This is fine as well, what is important is to have all cases treated during the wizard process since we should not expect the users to look later at installed extensions. I fully understand that you have postpone that to 4.3, I am surprise Thomas has not mentioned this when I talked with him earlier. Thanks, > > > > > WDYT ? > > Thanks for your feedback, > Marius > > > > > -- > > Denis Gervalle > > SOFTEC sa - CEO > > eGuilde sarl - CTO > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
