On dim, 2002-05-19 at 10:27, Magnus Manske wrote:
Switch your
skin to Cologne Blue -- no more date link! :)
Which reminds me - should we make CB the default skin? I have switched to it
since the big update a week or so ago, and I like it a lot better than the
standard one.
Might not hurt... There are still a few bugs to be worked out, and
general usability issues that I've discovered since switching to it
full-time:
General:
* The sidebar is getting so long that I have to scroll down to see
everything, and I'm running at 1280x1024.
* A lot of the things I want to use are hidden in the middle or bottom
somewhere and take a while to find: "Edit this page" is helped by being
in a larger font, but "Add to watchlist" and "Talk" are scrunched
down
among other things and I easily lose them; "My watchlist"[1] and "My
settings" aren't even visible until I scroll down. "Previous versions"
and "pages that link here" are also way down there. Same with "this
user's edits" on a user page.
Meanwhile, "Short pages", "Long articles", "User list" etc
are taking up
valuable real estate at the top of the screen.
* I find it odd that "My watchlist" and "Add to watchlist" are so
distantly separated.
Specific things:
* There's no access to "previous versions" or "pages that link
here"
when editing a page; you have to hit "cancel" and get at the links from
there unless you had the presence of mind to open the edit link in a
separate window.
* Hitting "Edit this page" on a previous page version edits the most
recent version instead. (Fixed in CVS)
[1] Notice that special:Watchlist is currently buggy, giving false
notice about nonexistent pages and ordering things horribly wrongly;
this is fixed in CVS. Although, the watchlist page itself isn't as
important now that RecentChanges indicates changes to your watchlist
entries in bold... But I still use my watchlist as a kind of bookmark
list.
On the statistics page, you might notice that most
people never changed
skins - the ones who deliberately chose a skin are counted, the rest never
tried. In case of making CB standard, should these be switched as well (they
can always change back, of course)?
I rather figured that would be part of the process of making it the
standard skin, yeah.
Note though that we should fix the cookie problem for
"http://www.wikipedia.com/" (without the /wiki/ part) so that the
mainpage always comes up in the user's selected skin.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)