Editor Usability Improvements

The Editor will get a few usability improvements, but not everything works as smooth as it should currently.

New Headline Buttons

Headlines are no longer inserted via direct size choosing but relatively to the previous headline.
  1. Even if I *know* what to do, I tend to click the wrong button. Mostly I press H+ instead of H=. IMHO „Same as level as previous“ is the standard and should be placed first. Perhaps also with a heavier icon than the others.
  2. The numerical symbols + - = is not descriptive at the same level as the other editor buttons. It would be better with some kind of illustration but I'm lousy drawing icons. Attached is something to illustrate an alternative (yes, it condradicts point 1 above and integrates dropdown in H= button). fixed.
  3. The dropdown menu H will only disappear is a heading is selected or H button pressed once more. This is not like most other programs. A dropdown should disappear also if the user clicks anywhere else and thereby focusing another control. Programs should encourage users to explore the functionality without getting stuck.
    • Adding the autoclose behavior of JSPopup breaks the functionality completely - I need to find out why.
  4. headlines that are inserted while the cursor is *within* a headline should be added a line below → easier creation of a whole bunch of headlines for prestructuring a documents

List Indention

List indention is kept on hitting Enter. Indention levels can be modified with space and backspace at the beginning of an item- Multiline selections are converted into multiple items.
  1. Changing the list type isn't easy currently.

Link Wizard

lets you search or browse the pages and namespaces for easier linking.
  1. Search for page content?
    • not feasible for fast response times
  2. On first level: „jump to top namespace“ instead of „jump to parent namespace“
    • adds translation overhead without adding enough value
  3. scrolling up is somewhat broken
  4. make editing existing links possible.
    • We might need a title field
    • title field may fix „new page“ problem as well → use a switch button to swap title and link…
lab/usability.txt · Zuletzt geändert: 2009/09/08 22:28 von Andreas Gohr
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