On 6/7/10, Itamar O <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Roger Oberholtzer
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:00 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>>>
[...]
>>>
>>> Since Trac does not use MS Office formatting, even the WYSIWYG
>>> part is pretty useless.
>>
>> This group is quite reluctant to change ... nothing I can do
>> :(
>>
>> Customers are always right
>> ;o)
>
> Of course I don't know anything about the environment you're talking
> about and those users,
> but at least from what you describe, it sounds like MOSS gives them
> what they need,
> so why change? maybe they really don't need trac?
>

Wish I could convince my boss using this kind of arguments (that only
happens in my dreams :-/ ). Of course, not related with you, thnx for
the pointer

;o)

>
> moving back to the main topic,
> in my organization, where I'm working on deploying Trac,
> the wiki editor is a problem (not all users are technical, and even
> the technical ones are not too happy with text-editor wiki-syntax),
> and the wysiwyg plugin is not a usable solution for us (as it has no
> right-to-left support (there's a TH ticket regarding this)).
> Ideally, some external wiki wysiwyg editor would be a perfect solution,
> a-la wysiwyg-plugin-on-speed-as-ms-office-extension,
> but a good in-browser editor (like CKEditor, that has right-to-left
> support) will also do.
> But in order to be useful enough, it will have to deal with macro
> expansion and plugin-manipulation of the wiki content,
> support advanced formatting (including complex tables), and supply a
> very convenient user interface
> (for example - entering Trac links by selecting a target page from a
> dynamically populated title-index,
> recognizing inter-trac and inter-map-txt, etc...), which is quite complex.
>
> I think this is important enough for us to put in some development
> effort (after I sell it to management),
> but as the most Trac-aware user in the organization, I am not enough
> to lead this effort...
> Is there any interest in something like this from more proficient
> users / developers,
> who will be willing to participate / lead such an effort?
>

Like the idea , but the fact is that I've never been able to decypher
the code of Wysiwyg plugin ... and I don't understand anything in
there (yet ;o)

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.

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