Vincent Massol wrote: > On May 21, 2008, at 1:52 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> This is somewhat in response to the discussion about the new >> Administration page design. >> >> Behind the scenes, there was a discussion about where should the >> Import >> page put the uploaded xar, in XWiki.Import (as it is done now), or in >> XWiki.XWikiPreferences. Both sides agreed that the administration >> should >> automatically find and use administration pages, but didn't agree on >> what "use" means. So, how should things work? >> >> A. The main administration page contains links to other pages >> B. The main administration page includes other administration sheets >> >> Option A means that each administration topic uses its own page to >> store >> configuration, which somehow breaks the current configuration >> mechanism, >> where all (global) settings go into the XWiki.XWikiPreferences page. > > Global settings should still go to XWikiPreferences even with option A. > >> Option B means that each administration document is used only as a >> sheet, so all objects will be in XWiki.XWikiPreferences. If we >> choose B, >> then the best thing to do is to attach imported xars to the >> XWikiPreferences page, instead of Import. Doing otherwise will >> either be >> very hard or would break the convention. >> >> So, the main question is: Do we keep all settings in the same >> document? >> Or do we allow each application/component to have its configuration in >> its own document? > > BTW we already do this with the space's WebPreferences pages.
I don't understand this. WDYM? >> I think it would be better to have all the configuration in one place, >> instead of spreading it all over the wiki. > > It's not spreading it all over. It's the ability for each application > to host its configuration data. The general configuration data should > still go to XWikiPreferences. > I think we should also keep the WebPreferences as is. > > I'd be for adding one or several Application Preference pages for each > applications. For example for the Blog we already have a Categories > page holding the categories and this is fine to me. > Similarly the Import/Export app (or rather the Admin app) has a page > called Import that contains the XAR and I see this as very fine. > > To summarize my position is to keep everything as it is now: > * Global preferences in XWikiPreferences > * Space preferences in WebPreferences > * Application-specific preferences in pages in the application (like > Blog.Categories, XWiki.Import, etc) Well, the current UI proposal displays a list of tabs for global administration. Where would you put the application preferences? As other tabs, but linking to another document, or have a tab called Application settings with links? And should an application settings page still use the administration UI (I mean the list of administration tabs)? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
