I concur with you.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Gjergj Sheldija
<gjergj.sheld...@gmail.com>wrote:
> hi all
>
> this mail was sent some time ago..i think thay i should resend it again..
>
> A long time has passed since c2x appeared and a lot of things have
> changed over the years.
>
> PHP has become a more robust and business oriented language, a lot of
> tools are disposable for developers and a lot of new business
> strategies are available to help with the common day to day problems
> that we encounter.
>
> Localization and internationalization are now more easy that they used
> to be, and php 6 promises even further improvements via Unicode
> support. Creating user documentation is now much more easy via wiki’s
> and Java script libraries can help a lot with designing rich and
> practical UI.
>
> I thing that the time is right to start a small revolution in c2x;
> i’ll list here some suggestion that I think would be useful, they may
> be right, may not; it’s up to the community to decide.
>
> Printing
>
> I think printing should be centralized, we should use a centralized
> code to do that. Agatha with some improvements could ease the creation
> of new print forms without the need to specify pdf coordinated by hand
> as we actually do.
>
> Localization
>
> The current way c2x has of handling translation is very hard to
> maintain and error prone. A migration to gettext could ease the
> translation efforts and help c2x greaten it’s userbase.
>
> Besides that there are strange cases like js_<lang>_sex_title.php
> which is not used in any file.
>
> Manual / Help files
>
> We all know how hard it is to write, update c2x help files, that why
> not use a wiki engine ? It would easy the process of maintenance of
> the the help files, it’s much more easy to translate and this way we
> could create a much needed manual, and have it updated automatically.
>
> HL7
>
> The actual implementation of HL7 is practically non existent. But the
> we should discuss here about v2 or v3, and if it has to be part of
> every module, or it should be and external library.
>
> The Code….
>
> Here are a lot of things that should be changed and and lot should be
> deleted.
>
> * First there is a lot of code that should be rewritten, think
> about sql code inside the module code, which is not a good practice.
> * Second there is no real separation of modules, module files are
> scattered all around the directory tree, which makes even harder to
> apply updates and change code around.
> * Third , the code needs some major clean up; there is a lot of
> unused code all over which makes further improvements difficult.
>
> And a lot of other things that I didn’t mention.
>
> UI
>
> Major improvements should be done on the ui side, from simple things
> as changing the tab interface from using images to simple js, to new
> visualization of the ward, to the possibility of connecting a specific
> user or group of users to a specific module – an example is the
> Glasgow Coma Scale.
>
> The notification system used in the labs, pharmacy, depot, technical
> is a bit outdated, a little ajax could make it much more usable.
>
> A new theming engine css based could help much more and ease the
> creation of new UI.
>
> Other scattered ideas..
>
> Other things that could be helpful is we should start to use automatic
> testing, modules can be installable from a central repository, the
> possibility of connecting specific users to specific modules,etc.
>
> Another thing is that we should avoid static configuration in files
> like $OpenTimes in lang_<lang>_abteilung.php and preferably have them
> stored in the db.
> this mail could be even more lengthy, but I hope you understand my
> point : c2x should evolve and it needs our help to do it!
>
> gj.
>
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