Re: [Phpwiki-talk] MonoBook theme

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

> I spent some hours to add the new default wikipedia (mediawiki) theme 
> to phpwiki:
>   http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/~rurban/phpwiki/monobook.php
>
> The logo, some navbar and actionbar tricks are missing.
> But what do you think about the new powered by phpwiki logo?


I really like:

- The clean look (simple colors, few colors, lines separating pieces, 
titles for UI pieces)
- "Sign in as:" is finally on top, as it should be (that's where people 
look!)
- Preferences also clearlyshown
- navigation and search are clearly separated and labeled
- The page content and page text are clearly separated

I'm glad the navbar and actionbar tricks are missing. I think many of 
them confuse people, and should be "power user only" or on a separate 
page or something. Even "Like Pages" is often not interesting (for the 
HomePage a bunch of things ending in "Page").

I agree with others that:

- The font is a little too small
- The "Edit" button in the PhpWiki logo can be misinterpreted. When I 
wasn't logged in, that's the only "Edit" button I saw
- I set a password, but it was ignored, since I didn't need it to log 
in. This is bad

Also, I say

- Preferences seem to be stored in a cookie. That is, if I set email 
address, then dump cookies, email address is unset. I thought we were 
server-side now, as should be?
- Logins should not have to be WikiWords. This is not what web users 
expect. I should be able to have any login that starts with a letter and 
has letters and numbers, like typical email addresses before the @. 
Maybe even typical email addresses (i.e., including @, .). I know the 
RFC includes spaces and stuff, but most people don't use that.

Dan