[Yanel-dev] simplifying toolbar's "Edit" menu

Simone Gerber simone.gerber at wyona.com
Thu Apr 23 09:54:02 CEST 2009


Hi Guillaume, hi all

I agree with Guillaume and like his suggestions, except that for the
Revisions, I would wright the workflow status behind the revision
number because it optically looks better.

> YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm (0123456789012) draft > [...]
>                                        > More details
>                                        > [...]

Cheers,
Simone

Guillaume Déflache wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> [For the from-scratch realm at least] I think the toolbar can still be
> simplified a lot:
> 
> Currently the "Edit" menu reads:
> 
> Edit
> ----
> Open with > WYSIWYG Editor > Edit page with Xinha
>                              Edit page with TinyMCE
>                              Edit page with Yulup[1]
>             Source Editor[2]
> 
> Revisions > 0123456789012 (DD/MM/YY, HH:mm, draft)[3] > [...]
>                                                       > Show more details
>                                                       > [...]
>             1234567890123 (DD/MM/YY, HH:mm, null)
>             [...]
> 
> 
> [1] this only links to the Yulup homepage, maybe we could craft some JS
> that checks if Yulup is installed and then run it on the page (or at
> least explain where one needs to click to do so!) or else go to the
> Yulup homepage?
> [2] This is always greyed out, I suppose this has never been
> implemented? Anyway AFAICR both TinyMCE and Xinha support this.
> [3] The date format does not seems to depend on the locale, and it looks
> so '90ies! :P I wonder what the timezone is here. The toolbar does not
> look translated at least in the from-scratch realm anyway.
> 
> I suggest the following:
> 
> Edit
> ----
> Edit page (using Xinha)
> Edit page (using TinyMCE)
> Get Yulup to edit pages
> 
> and a separate menu just to the right of the former:
> 
> Revisions
> ---------
> last published: YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm (1234567890123)
> YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm, draft (0123456789012) > [...]
>                                         > More details
>                                         > [...]
> YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm (1234567890123)
> [...]
> 
> 
> Also maybe we should also fix
> http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6920 (if not
> done already) to simplify workflows further.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>    Guillaume
> 
> 


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