9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
10:37 p.m.
1) I think we need a control panel (a la windows for
example). When
the user clicks on the "Administration" link in the top right corner
of the screen it goes to a page with a nice control panel (i.e. nice
icons). This Panel would replace the current Administration view with
tabs. Clicking on a control panel item will go to a special page
about that item.
A control panel a la windows (and many apps & webapps) would be nice,
it's by far the most practical choice when applications can add items
into the general settings (where tabbed layouts can become a mess).
Just to clarify one point : I'm sure everyone agree to keep the core
administration within templates, accessible by the admin action.
Now it begs the question of the reusability of the wiki administration
templates for spaces administration.. 2 options from my POV :
1) Lighten a lot the preferences accessible from UI for spaces
(default language, parent, skin settings, default editor. for example)
and make their administration really different from the wiki one.
2) Have spaces control panels accessible from the main control panel
Obviously my choice goes to 1) :)
BTW I guess all this is Future and not 1.2M2, I'll create the design
entry for the record.
2) I think we need everything that's about Admin
in this control
panel, including Blogs, Photo Album, etc.
3) In the future the control panel would offer extension points for
apps to contribute items to it but right now we should hardcode items
for Blogs, Photo Album, etc. It's easy to know which ones to include
since this is inside XE and we control the default apps bundled in XE.
4) It would be great to get Laurent Lunati's help to design this
control panel.
+1.
JV.