[TYPO3-hci] Surveys and known facts?

[Mark Stephenson]

Steffan,

I agree strongly with you that TypoScript is a huge usability challenge for 
TYPO3 administrators. I think we need to work toward a TYPO3 configuration 
tool that hides TypoScript and provides a dynamically-generated series of 
menus and forms that allows an administrator to configure as much as is 
possible. It can write TypoScript so it does not impact the rest of the 
system, but there is a huge need here.

I'd also like to bring up the RTE. We get a lot of complaints and confusion 
from our users about the behavior of the RTE when it modifies entries and 
behaves in unexpected ways. The issue there is that most people using TYPO3 
will spend most of their time entering content into the RTE. So that makes 
this a more critical issue. And I know it is complicated by the fact that 
the RTE is not a TYPO3 development.

Lastly, for our users, we have seen confusion between list view and page 
view. And we have also seen confusion with Filelist. Questions like, "why 
are their two trees" (page tree and directory tree) and frustration at the 
need to move back and forth between editing pages and uploading files. It 
is a pain to leave the page view when you remember that you forgot to 
upload a graphic. So I see three views that need improvement -- Page, View, 
and Filelist.

I agree that these are some of the bigger HCI issues to be addressed.

Thanks,
Mark




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