[pmwiki-users] Change summary field / edit page results

[Algis Kabaila]

On Saturday 16 April 2005 16:47, pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:03:47 -0500
> From: Jonathan Scott Duff <duff at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Change summary field / edit page results
> To: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
> Cc: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> Message-ID: <20050416000347.GA11681 at pobox.com>
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> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:18:25PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:43:06PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> > > 
> > > (Heck, PmWiki doesn't even have a "Change summary" field.)
> > 
> > Actually, I'm planning to change that before the 2.0 release.
> > In fact, here's my current thinking on the edit page:
> > 
> > Definite:
> >    - A change summary field
> >    - Eliminate the "Reset" button
> 
> Good deal. I've never gotten used to how "Reset" interacts with
> "Preview"

You are not alone.  I could never get any useful action with the "Reset" 
button and never could fathom why it is there.
> 
> > Active consideration:
> >    - Save minor edit
> >    - Save and continue editing
> >        My only problem with the additional save buttons is getting the 
> >        labels correct so that they aren't so visually misbalanced.  With
> > 
> >              Save  Save minor edit  Save and continue editing
> >        the most important button ends up being the smallest, which offends
> >        my design sense somehow.
> 
> How about something like this?
> 
>         [Preview]  [Save]  [Finish editing]  [ ] minor edit
> 
> or maybe
> 
>         [Preview]  [Save]  [Save & Finish]   [ ] minor edit
Or perhaps
           [Preview]  [Save]  [Quit without Saving]   [ ] minor edit 

I really missed that option.  I know, I am old and slow on the uptake, but I 
really missed the option of abandoning the saving and returning to the 
display of the unedited page.  

> Change the connotation of "Save" to not imply that editing is done.
> I also think that "minor edit" should remain a checkbox (obviously. 
> 
> -Scott
> -- 
> Jonathan Scott Duff
> duff at pobox.com
> 

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Algis Kabaila
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