Re: Rethinking our layout

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:58 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> After a yarrr chat today, Colin, Seth and I sat down and rethought our
> layout.  We started out talking about the live comments here:
> 
> http://yarrr.gnome.org/wiki/index.php/Yarrr_WikiLiveSections
> 
> However, we have been rethinking our overall push here.  We came out of
> it wanting to push the wiki integration even more.
> 
> THE PLAN:
> 
> We are going to split chat out of discussion, and make it a separate
> thing.  Instead of embedding a chat into a page, we're going to default
> to having one on every page.  It won't be part of the page flow.  We're
> going to put an expander on the top of the page that, when you click on
> it, will covers the top half of the page with the chat area (ascii art
> to follow).
> 
>    +----=====----+   +-------------+
>    |             |   |             |
>    |             |   | (chat area) |
>    |             |   +----=====----+
>    |             |   |             |
>    |             |   |             |
>    +-------------+   +-------------+
> 
> It'll be a fixed layout, so scrolling will go under the chat window, and
> it won't relayout the page.  We're also going to add a keybinding to
> show/hide it.  This will let you scroll to a relevant section of the
> page and let it be visible in the bottom half -- hopefully avoiding the
> current 'swapping' effect we see were people scroll between the chat and
> an open comment.
> 
> The other change we're going to make is to have section editing embed a
> live comment into the page.  This will allow us to collaboratively edit
> a section at a time.  Colin is going to look into adding this.
> 
> Marco, if you want something to work on, we'd love to have a way to
> regenerate a mediawiki section on the fly without reloading the whole
> page.  This will let us update the section when the live comment is
> closed.
> 
> There are a two, big ramifications from this change.  The first is that
> we're basically going to be storing no interesting data in our current
> database scheme with this.  We aren't keeping closed comments anymore,
> but are pushing those changes to the wiki.  We are probably going to
> store other information in the future, but for now, it's going to be
> pretty useless.

Something that would be interesting to reuse are the whiteboards shots.
It would be cool to be able to push them in the wiki content and it
doesnt seem difficult. I'm just unsure if the new rich live comments can
made embed images in them...

Marco