On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:36 AM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > Hello devs, > > When we are using XWiki for public web sites, most of the time we want > to hide some elements in the UI for guest users (and sometimes for > authenticated users as well). > Currently, it's not elegant to do so : either we have to create a custom > skin, override a couple of templates (with all the merging nightmare it > bringd when upgrading the wiki) - either we create a SSX to "hide" > visually elements. > None of those solutions are really satisfactory. The first one is > painful, the second one is only a workaround and can be a pain too > (there is no way currently to use a SSX "under certain conditions") > > Before we can handle all this nicely using Interface eXtensions, I > propose to make couple of light changes to some templates to make our > life easier : > > 1) Add 4 variables in layoutvars.vm : > * $displayContentMenu // display or not the content menu (view, edit > links, etc.) true by default > * $displayMainMenu // display or not the main menu (wiki and space > links, user profile) true by default
Is this notion not specific to colibri only? Do we want to make it a generic feature for all skins or do we want to add an empty skinlayoutvars.vm in templates/ that are there so that skins fill it with skin-specific vars? > * $displayDocExtra // display or not the tabs with doc extra links > (comments, attachments, etc.) true by default Don't we already have a variable for hiding the doc extra tabs? We need to make sure we use the same one. > * $displayShortcuts // display or not the document shortcuts (those are > in the line written under the document title) > > (this is XWIKI-4394 "Allow some UI elements not to be displayed by > setting a variable") > > 2) Add a "extravars.vm" template that remains empty by default. This > will allow to override values from xwikivars/layoutvars without the need > to override them (and introducing the merging pain upon upgrade). > > (this is XWIKI-4927 "We need a way to be able to override variables from > xwikivars.vm / layoutvars.vm without overriding these templates") > > Please let me know what you think, I would like to move forward with > this during 2.3 +1 Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
