On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Eduard Moraru wrote: > On 03/24/2011 07:28 PM, Luca Anca wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> starting from the need of the dashboards, to specify the default edit >> mode for a page, here's how I would like to implement it, in the >> following days. >> >> Context: >> There is already a mechanism for this, which works like this: if, >> document A includes sheet B and sheet B has an object of type >> "XWiki.SheetClass", then clicking the edit button of document A will >> automatically open the edit mode specified in the XWiki.SheetClass >> object of the sheet B. >> >> Proposal: >> >> 1/ I propose an enhancement of the existing mechanism, to allow such an >> XWiki.SheetClass object to be attached to the document A directly. >> Namely the edit mode for the document A will be read first from the >> objects of type XWiki.SheetClass in document A, then if none found, from >> the objects in the included sheet. >> >> 2/ XWiki.SheetClass should be renamed to XWiki.EditModeClass, or >> XWiki.DefaultEditModeClass, or something alike, that suggests its >> purpose. Current class name will be deprecated but still preserved for a >> good while. What would be your name proposals for this? >> >> 3/ optionally, we could deprecate the current mechanism, and say that >> objects should never be attached to sheets anymore, only to pages. This >> way, the usecase of a sheet should be implemented by adding the >> EditModeClass object in the template from which docs are created, so >> that it can be easily propagated to a set of documents. >> I am not against the current mechanism, I think it's a nice helper, and >> the replacing implementation has the drawback of making it mandatory to >> create documents through templates, or manually adding this object in >> the doc creation code. Therefore, I would be -0.5 on this. >> WDYT? >> >> 4/ optionally, add an edit mode panel (or whatever we want to replace >> them with) to change this from a nice UI. This can turn out useful in >> cases when such an edit object is added automatically (e.g. dashboards) >> and when it's no longer needed (dashboard macro call is deleted from the >> page), the default edit mode still stays the one set automatically. This >> is very optional, as I see little cases when users would delete just >> the macro call, and not the page as a whole. >> >> Thanks, >> Anca >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > +1 for the idea. > > As a side note, I`d like it if we went even further with this and create > a "Page Preferences" section, just like we have for space and wiki, > where we could specify things like default edit mode or whatever wiki or > application specific stuff. These preferences would materialize in > objects being added to the current page. > > WDYT?
Indeed, I thought about this too but in the end I thought that it would be better to have specific objects for each "preference" that is required instead of a single large do-it-all preference object. -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
