[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23396: Revision team proposed changes patches for testing

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#23396: Revision team proposed changes patches for testing
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 Reporter:  adamsilverstein         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Revisions               |     Version:  3.5.1
 Severity:  normal                  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |
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Changes (by adamsilverstein):

 * cc: adamsilverstein@… (added)


Comment:

 thanks for your comments. i think we all agree the revision tables are
 currently lousy! we've been mocking up lots of ideas for improvements- see
 this [http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/02/04/revisions-updates-for-
 last-week/ blog post] for some recent ideas.

 i like your suggestions for actions in the revision list, in
 [http://f.cl.ly/items/3A0o3I2k161U3K1r2u3v/revisions%20mockup-2.png one of
 our early mockups] we had compare from, compare to, delete and restore
 below each revision. for now the delete idea was dropped, see #9681.

 i agree the current list and checkboxes are confusing (although if we get
 rid of them, can we keep the easter egg? #12816)

 your suggestion about a Show action makes me think we should add a preview
 button into the diff view, currently the only way to show a revision
 itself is by clicking a revision title in the table.

 currently we allow any two revisions to be compared: perhaps we should
 always ''assume they are comparing to the current revision'' -- only let
 them choose a revision to compare to.  this change would simplify the
 interface, because there is only one list of revisions to choose from;
 restoring a revision would allow you to compare to that revision.




 Replying to [comment:2 mark-k]:
 > I don't know if this is the proper place but IMO the revisions table at
 revisions.php suck. Hard to put the finger on exactly what sucks there but
 I guess that one of the bigger things is that it doesn't look and behave
 like other tables in WP.
 >
 > My suggestion is to have 3 coloumns in the table
 >  title - the title of the revision
 >
 >  time - creation time of the revision
 >
 >  author - the author of the revision.
 >
 > Actions should be shown on mouseover and include restore, select for
 compare, view. show, and delete.
 >
 > new action "Delete" - right now there is no interface to delete a
 revision. not sure if it is on purpose or just an omission (maybe a
 revision contained some content I prefer that it will not be even in the
 privacy of the DB)
 >
 > new action "View" - show the post/page as it will look on the front end
 if it was restored
 >
 > new action "Show" - show the content in the revision.php page without
 restoring it.
 >
 > Not sure about the "select for compare" but the current way of selecting
 revisions is ugly. why do I need to specify which is the new and which is
 the old when we have the revision date, and why should I be limited by the
 UI to a two way compare?
 >
 > If the resulting table is small then maybe it can be displayed instead
 of the current revision table displayed at the post & page editing pages.

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