[Xerte-dev] Connector Pages

[Julian Tenney]

Why have the author set 'mode'? What's the point of this, and if we need it can we not detect it? What happens if I forget to set it back? Couldn't this be a global setting?

With the connector pages, do we need to have the options for back / next buttons stuff on each page, or are there global / automatic settings we could make?

It is a pain when buttons are turned off to quickly get to the page I want to get to - so If I add a new page, I can't navigate to it to check it's how I want it, because the buttons suddenly disappear.

I can see the value in the connectors, but we need to make this easy.

Seriously, when we built toolkits the mantra in the office was (honestly) 'f*ckwit simple'. It meant that we created tools that create relatively simple content. But it means people can use it. That guiding principle has got us a long way, and means that people can easily create content - that is what people like about toolkits. We need to sanity check all the new features against that mantra. If it isn't 'f*ckwit simple' it may belong in another tool.

Even if people don't use the more advanced features, seeing them, and realising they don't know what to do with them undermines the simplicity and usability elsewhere - I think people should very quickly feel at home with all the functionality, and not feel that only a subset of it is appropriate for them: by implication those users feel, well, a bit like f*ckwits, and that's not what we want to say. We want to say 'this is easy' and we want people to think 'this is brilliant, I can do this'. There are other tools for more advanced users.

What is display text? This is another one that we need to have a think about: I'm not sure what it does having just played around with it for a few minutes. If I don't know what something does after playing around with it for a few minutes, neither will a great many other people. Remember the mantra.

Can everyone play around with the connectors and can we have some debate about this please?

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