> -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Cribbs > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:01 PM > Subject: Re: [Radiant] Current status of facets branch > > Damien, > > I see there's a "facets-lite" in the mental branch: > > * how stable is it? > > It's pretty stable, actually. That's mostly because it's > trivial -- you can only add to the meta area and the area above > the buttons. I don't see it persisting however, once we get more > flexibility.
(and later) > 'facets-lite' was just a nickname because I wanted to enable things > like page_attachments without the full-blown hyper-extensible model > of facets. So the facets-lite wasn't for the pages view? I just found it by searching trac for "facets". > > * could it be extended into the more complete facets system > > or would it have to be rewritten? > > There are a number of design flaws in facets that need to be > alleviated, and in my opinion, it might be easier to rewrite. What were the original goals of the project? How were you intending it would work? What do you now want to change on it? If you could explain this we might be able to help steer it in the right direction? I was thinking a simply way to add an action column to the Pages list would be an ample start to any grander plans, that would allow us to start making extensions behave nicely. > > * how far is the mental branch from merged into trunk? > > mental became 0.6.0, if you look at the changelogs. Mea culpa, I forgot that. > What specific sections of the interface do you want to modify? I'd like to be able to have the ReOrder and CopyMove extensions on the same page, playing nicely. I can rework the extensions to suit, but it's tweaking the core I'm nervous about. > Until I get time to work on facets, the least we could do is put > some more flexibility in trunk if the request is reasonable, well > thought out and tested. If you could document what you'd like Facets to do we could try to work towards that goal? > Of course, you can always just copy the current UI and modify it > to fit your needs in an extension. Yes, but I prefer not creating more work for myself - when v0.6.5 or 0.7 rolls out with a replacement I'll have wasted time getting. > If you have other extensions that do the same, however, this could > be sticky -- see the recent discussions about reorder/CopyMove. Exactly, I started that thread :) > As always, patches are welcome. Since it is open source, you > are also welcome to modify the codebase yourself. Yes. As mentioned though if I'm going to help I'd like to at least be working in the same direction as the main project, so my efforts don't go to waste. Damien _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
