On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu@xwiki.com> wrote:
Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
Admin in view mode, without a left menu : http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministrationLayout2
+0, the advantage is that it provides a familiar interface. The downside is that it does not indicate in any way that this is an advanced manipulation of the wiki (administration). It looks like any other page, but is this entirely a good thing?
I think the header can be skinned to be more visible, it's also supposed to contain the icon of the current section.
Admin in edit mode, without a navigation panel : http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministrationLayout4
+1, because it maximizes the space efficiency, looks different from normal page view (indicating that this is something special), is consistent between different sections and the administration main page, and is L10N friendly.
I haven't thought about L10N which is indeed an important point. About consistency, again, having the panel wizard in a special section looks disturbing to me.
Other question, how do we display the space selector : http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministrationSpaceSel...
Yet another option is to switch dynamically depending on the number of spaces. If there are less than, let's say, 30 space, display the full list. If there are more, then print the suggest code.
But for the first release, I think that the easiest solution is the best. We can improve it later, it doesn't make sense to delay this further (1.5M2 should be released this week, and I'd like to see the new administration in it). So, +1 for a static list.
+1, with idealy an automatic switch developed in RC. -- Jean-Vincent Drean