10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
12:02 a.m.
On 10/9/07, Jean-Vincent Drean <jv(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
I would also very much prefer lighter preferences *in general*.. i.e.
break out the big xwiki preferences humungo thing into smaller bits
that can be disabled.. like registration. What if I don't want to
allow registration? It would be nice to set a value in xwiki.cfg, and
have all that registration stuff just disappear. Actually, the "Ad"
stuff is the real bother, I don't use ads. I'd rather not have to even
see them in the config panels.
Maybe from the main xwiki config panel, enable/disable things like
ads, blogs, photo album, etc. and if they're disabled, then ...
And what do you need to admin for the photo album anyway? Or blog, for
that matter.. it seems like this is mostly to get at the ClassSheet
and ClassTempate... it seems like a more generic mechanism would be
better, like just linking to XWikiClasses...
--
'Waste of a good apple' -Samwise Gamgee
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) :)