Changes for page Top 10 Features introduced in XWiki Enterprise 2.x Cycle
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... ... @@ -32,38 +32,45 @@ 32 32 * The possibility to undo the latest modifications or reset all changes 33 33 34 34 Read more about Color Themes on the dedicated [[application page>>extensions:Extension.Color Theme Application]]. 35 -=== New Search Interface === 36 36 37 - Thedefault searchpageUIhas been improved to be easier to understand and use.36 +=== New Profile UI === 38 38 39 -[[image:[email protected]||style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 600px;"]] 40 -== Further improvements to the edit UI == 38 +Complete **overhaul of the Profile UI**: better display of the user information, recent changes by the user are shown, different tabs for user details, user settings, and watchlist information: 41 41 42 - After theimprovements to theobjectand classeditors introduced in 1.8 and 2.4, thewiki and WYSIWYGeditorsalso see some enhancements in this release, bringing in some oftheproposed changes from [[an older proposal>>http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/ImprovedEdit]], with some additionalimprovements.Specifically:40 +image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22@profile.png 43 43 44 -* A new label for the content area in the wiki editor:((( 45 -image:[email protected] 46 -))) 47 -* A more descriptive label for the version summary field 48 -* Better positioning of the "minor edit" option 49 -* Better positioning and display of the "autosave" option((( 50 -image:[email protected] 51 -))) 42 +Improved inline-based editing for modifying profile details: 52 52 53 - == Preliminaryoptionalccessibility stylesheet==44 +image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22@profileedit.png 54 54 55 - Moving furtheronthe quest forbetter accessibility in theXWiki platform, we introduced a preliminarystylesheetwhichmakes the skinslightly moreaccessible topeople with visual disabilities: biggerfonts by default, and underlined linkstomakethemmore easily distinguished by colorblind people.Thisstylesheet caneither beactivated globally in a wiki, or individually from each user's preferences.46 +Inclusion of the **WatchList manager** page into the Profile as a tab: 56 56 57 - Enablinghepecialylesheet:48 +image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22@watchlist.png 58 58 59 - image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@a11y-enable.png50 +Added a tab in the //Profile// for managing **user preferences**, which is currently rather small, but will be improved later to include more settings: 60 60 61 - Bigger fontsand underlined links:52 +image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22@preferences.png 62 62 63 -image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise2 5@a11y.png54 +image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise22@preferencesedit.png 64 64 65 - ==More consistentuse ofuseravatars==56 +User profiles have been converted to XWiki Syntax 2.0 66 66 58 +=== New Search Interface === 59 + 60 +* The default search page UI has been improved to be easier to understand and use.[[image:[email protected]||style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 600px;"]] 61 + 62 +=== Preliminary optional accessibility stylesheet === 63 + 64 +Moving further on the quest for better accessibility in the XWiki platform, we introduced a preliminary stylesheet which makes the skin slightly more accessible to people with visual disabilities: bigger fonts by default, and underlined links to make them more easily distinguished by colorblind people. This stylesheet can either be activated globally in a wiki, or individually from each user's preferences. 65 + 66 +* Enabling the special stylesheet: 67 +[[image:[email protected]]] 68 + 69 +* Bigger fonts and underlined links: 70 +[[image:[email protected]]] 71 + 72 +=== More consistent use of user avatars === 73 + 67 67 Avatars now come in three default sizes: 68 68 69 69 * small avatars, 30px wide, used in secondary actions and where there's very little space available ... ... @@ -70,10 +70,9 @@ 70 70 * medium avatars, 50px wide, the preferred and most frequent display option for avatars 71 71 * large avatars,120px wide, to be used where a large version of the avatar must be displayed (for example in the user profile) 72 72 73 -Accordingly, the wiki dashboard has been changed to use the medium avatars, and as a new feature user avatars are displayed in the comments area. 80 +* Accordingly, the wiki dashboard has been changed to use the medium avatars, and as a new feature user avatars are displayed in the comments area. 81 +[[image:[email protected]]] 74 74 75 -image:[email protected] 76 - 77 77 Four new velocity macros have been added for making it easier to display avatars: 78 78 79 79 * ###smallUserAvatar('XWiki.username')## ... ... @@ -81,10 +81,36 @@ 81 81 * ###largeUserAvatar('XWiki.username')## 82 82 * ###resizedUserAvatar('XWiki.username', 100)## which allows resizing an avatar to a custom size 83 83 84 -User avatars are also displayed in annotations. 90 +* User avatars are also displayed in annotations. 91 +[[image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@annotation-avatars.png]] 85 85 86 - image:ReleaseNotes.ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise25@annotation-avatars.png93 +=== UI for Deleted documents & attachments === 87 87 95 +While deleted documents and attachments have been stored in a trash instead of being completely deleted since XWiki 1.2, there was no general interface for viewing the contents of the trash. This has been remedied by the introduction of two new tabs in the wiki's Document Index, //Deleted Documents// and //Deleted Attachments//. 96 + 97 +* [[image:[email protected]]] 98 + 99 +Both use the livetable, thus allowing filtering and ordering for easier browsing. A document from the trash can be viewed, permanently deleted, or restored if the location is still available. 100 + 101 +* [[image:[email protected]]] 102 + 103 +The attachment trash contains only attachments deleted from a document, and not attachments that were deleted together with their owner document; in the latter case, the attachments are kept together with the document in the document trash. For attachments, there is no restore option yet, it will be implemented in a future release. 104 + 105 +* [[image:[email protected]]] 106 + 107 +=== Further improvements to the edit UI === 108 + 109 +After the improvements to the object and class editors introduced in 1.8 and 2.4, the wiki and WYSIWYG editors also see some enhancements in this release, bringing in some of the proposed changes from [[an older proposal>>http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/ImprovedEdit]], with some additional improvements. Specifically: 110 + 111 +* A new label for the content area in the wiki editor:((( 112 +image:[email protected] 113 +))) 114 +* A more descriptive label for the version summary field 115 +* Better positioning of the "minor edit" option 116 +* Better positioning and display of the "autosave" option 117 +[[image:[email protected]]] 118 + 119 + 88 88 == 2.Annotations == 89 89 90 90 The scope of this feature is to allow users to annotate text in a XWiki document. With the new feature you can: ... ... @@ -145,5 +145,3 @@ 145 145 Note the current user does not have permission to edit one of the configurable applications. 146 146 147 147 148 - 149 -