[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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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23396#comment:3>
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