Hello people, Pardon the length of this post. I've tried not to ramble.
I've spent much of last week trying to figure out TW and TiddlySpace. Now I've got more or less what I want and mean to start using the space for real (I've used up my 'learning' time budget). There are unresolved issues though, which I'd like to list here, in the hope it helps you and me. Thanks to everyone who's been helping out. I had been looking for the right software for ages, and when I chanced on TW it smelt like the holy grail. I love it from the open standards to the nonlinearity. It's genius. Getting to grips with it was harder than I hoped, but you guys really helped out. My 'use case': computer-literate but web-dev-illiterate scientist wants to set up a blog/mind dump to share with colleagues who may occasionally contribute. Prepared to invest some time into setting up; but for the other users everything needs to be as plug-n-play as possible. Where it's at: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/645/atspace.png You see the neui-em theme with modified params, the QuickEdit toolbar and calendar from TiddlyTools, twmath, and the comments plugin. My main work computer has a 800x480px screen so the interface needs to tango with that; using proportional font sizes etc. Next up: what I'm not happy with yet. This may include stuff I just don't know personally, and more general issues; and it repeats some things from other threads I've started. Importance is given by the number of *. As this is a long list of whining I'd like to assure you that I realise stuff doesn't happen by magic and that I probably misunderstand half of this; I appreciate everyone's efforts! Please see if you can answer any of these, or point at answers or (TS in particular) stuff-in-development: TW in general: *1) Can I have internal (tiddler) links looking different from external ones, Wikipedia-style? *2) What is a 'story'? *3) Can I get the calendar to size better with the MainMenu? (see screenshot) **4) I get the comment box with the line <div class='comments' macro='comments textRows:1 textCols:3'></div><div class='comments' macro='comments textRows:1 textCols:3'></div> in the ViewTemplate part of NeUIemTheme. I'd prefer to have the comment box in a slider, so that upon opening a tiddler, there would be: * a closed slider if there are 0 comments * an open slider if there are >=1 comments * no slider at all if the tiddler is tagged 'noComments' **5) It's cool to have the tagChooser thing in the edit view. However, I'd like it to only show a set list of tags (which I'd e.g. list in a tiddler). This to quickly choose between, say, 'sports', 'cooking', 'politics' but not 'systemConfig' etc. **6) It would rock to have a 'create SVG tiddler' button which sets server.content-type to image/svg+xml automatically (or a more elaborate version with automated loading to and saving from e.g. SVG Edit) [see http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/edd60994f5c1ec8?hl=en] TiddlySpace specific: ***7) I'd really like a way to automatically keep the collaborators up to date without needing them to browser-login to the space each time. Google tells me that password-authenticated RSS feed systems exist. It would rock if TS had this. **8) Since I want to use this system seriously to store half of my brain, I have to wonder where my data really are. How are they stored? As in: ownership, structure, security? Could they some day just be gone for good? **8bis) Relatedly, how can I make a 'private-friendly' local backup? I think this is critical no matter the guarantees you have for storage on your side. When I save the html file and load it, I can only see the public tiddlers. *9) Username/space issues: 9a> It would be good if people could login with just an openID (if listed as members of the space). 9b> Alternatively, allow subscription to TS without the creation of a space. The most obvious choice of username for my collaborators is something like GivennameSurname, but they may not like for there to be a GivennameSurname.tiddlyspace.com website around. 9c> I was in such a situation myself and deleted that first space (by including deleted), but (1) it's still there (I suppose it'll be purged at some point) and (2) I didn't set up a SiteIcon then, meaning I'm now stuck with the stick figure avatar for my username. It might be good to decouple user profile management a bit more from space management. *10) Undemocratic though it be, I'm not really happy with how all members of the space must have equal rights. It would be nicer if the 'owner' of the space could grant or withold rights. Consider that my other members will likely not invest much time in learning TW and so deletion accidents are a danger; one can think of plenty more unhappy scenarios. *11) Can I change the default 'private'/'public' icons to something else? Thank you for your patience! ~P -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
