On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Guillaume Delhumeau < [email protected]> wrote:
> +1 for the solution 3: > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ > IdeaVisibleSave/smallViewPort.png Hi Guillaume, They are not separate proposals, just one, but it looks a bit different when it's fixed at bottom, versus in its position. Just wanted to make that clear. > > > 2017-04-11 21:58 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>: > > > Hi, > > > > > On 11 Apr 2017, at 21:25, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Caty, > > > Very happy to see progress in this area, this is a real pain to scroll > > to the bottom of the document to save it, and there is a long time it is > > affecting us. > > > However, I am not really happy with your current proposal. I found the > > text area for the version summary way too small for the purpose. > Beginner users sometimes don't know what that is for. Somebody asked me to remove it all together :) you think it's too small :P > It should > > IMO stay on a separate line in order to be large enough. Since this not > > always useful, it might, however, be collapsed somehow in certain > > circumstances. > Currently it is on a separate line. I tried to integrate everything in a single line, that will be always visible, although I agree we have many functionalities (autosave, summary, minor, preview, etc.) and they look a bit crowded. > > > I also wonder if just having some buttons on the top in addition to the > > bottom, wouldn’t be simpler and as efficient, even if the top feature is > > limited (just save / save&view). > Usually save is a the bottom. Still the same view will be also in Full Screen and the top area is already taken by the CkEditor controls, see http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave/fullScreen.png Thanks, Caty > It might also work with your fixed bottom > > UI, that might also be more limited than what you can do by scrolling. > > > I hope these are useful comments. I am also curious to see other > > opinions on this important feature. > > > > For me, the issue with the always-on-bar is that it takes up space and > > thus reduces the available vertical space for editing content. Thus I > find > > it interesting to have it on only one line and also to only have it at > the > > bottom and not repeat it at the top. I’d really not like to see it at the > > top. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > -- > > > Denis Gervalle > > > SOFTEC sa - CEO > > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 17:59, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi devs, > > > > > > Some users have complained that when editing they don't know that they > > need > > > to scroll in order to see the Save buttons. > > > > > > This is a proposal that tackles: > > > - Displaying the save buttons in a bottom area, when they are out of > the > > > viewport, see > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ > > IdeaVisibleSave/bottomBar.png > > > - Reorganizing the bottom zone in order to compact all the save > functions > > > into a single bar > > > - When the user scrolls, the buttons go into their position, see > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ > > IdeaVisibleSave/after.png > > > > > > For the whole proposal and more screenshots, see > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaVisibleSave > > > > > > WDYT? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Caty > > > > > > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project >
