On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < vali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> > wrote: > > > Hi Caty, > > > > > On 19 Jun 2018, at 17:29, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <vali...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi devs, > > > > > > Some ideas that could be applied to left panels area: > > > > > > * Mark "More applications" as expandable > > > > Seems good > > > > > * Provide a "Customize" panel button on hover > > > > I agree with the general idea. > > > > Some details: > > * For admins only right? > > * What does it do? We don’t have the concept of Panel administration ATM. > > What would work is edit the panel page but then we may want to go further > > than that. Editing needs to be an option but some panel may provide an > > admin UI too such as the Navigation Panel or the Applications Panel. > Maybe > > it’s time to update the Panel XClass and add an xproperty for the > > administration of panels, which would be used if not empty. > > > > > In theory only for Admins, since they have access to Administration. > Currently we have dedicated customizations for AppBar and Navigation, so > having that button would help the discoverability. Being able to have it at > the Panel class, could be nice, but I think it's interesting to have it at > least as individual customizations for these 2 panels that are on the Left. > > > > > * Some styling changes > > > > Sounds good > > > > > * Demo: show sticky left panels would behave > > > > I made the sticky demo mostly as an experiment. I even don't know if I like > it. It's problematic for the current skin, since the logo disappears on > scrolling. > I made the demo since we discussed once on the IRC about independent > containers and wanted to see how it looks like. From an implementation POV > it's a single "position: sticky" in CSS, but it's not supported in IE11. So > this could be an option just for a newer skin or have JS to have the > behavior. > > > > > > I’m also not yet 100% sure about the sticky panels but why not, we should > > discuss the details. What I don’t like are for cases when you have panels > > that span more than a screenful vertically. > > > > It’s possible there’s not a single valid choice depending how you want to > > implement your website and thus maybe the only option is to have this > > configurable in the general Panel Admin UI (fixed panels or sticky > panels). > > That’s what would make the most sense to me. Once we have this, the > default > > should be what looks best with the default content we provide for XS. > > > > > > Yeap, for KB having a sticky TOC or Navigation panel would look great Only if the panel content fits the window height. Both the ToC and the Navigation Panel can take a lot of vertical space (e.g. if you have a large wiki and you expand the navigation tree). What will be the behavior if the panels content is larger than the window height? > , but > it's not the case for all the Flavors. So having it customizable would be > preferred. > > Thanks, > Caty > > > > I like those ideas! :) > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > See the prototype in action: > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/ > > IdeaExpandableAppBar/AppBar.gif > > > > > > The full proposal at: > > > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/IdeaExpandableAppBar > > > > > > Let me know what you think. > > > Thanks, > > > Caty > > > > >
