Joshua,
It's true that configuration nodes should be activated very
carefully, and that we should document these few cases where you
should actually not activate.
Having "meta" configuration pages is something we've been thinking
about for a while and that will hopefully be implemented in the
future - there's a lot of rewriting of the gui that needs to be done
first.
Cheers
-g
On Jan 7, 2008, at 00:00 , joshua portway wrote:
Beware of activating the anonymous role - I just did it (it seemed
a reasonable thing to do at the time) and it made my public
instance inaccessible. The anonymous role in the authoring instance
seems to be set to deny anonymous access to any URLs. That makes
sense once you think about it, but the problem is that these kinds
of asymmetries between the authoring and public instances are not
at all obvious to the user - there's nothing to tell me that it's a
bad idea to publish that role. Almost every problem I've had with
Magnolia has ended up coming down to these kinds of problems - the
two instances getting out of sync or something from the authoring
instance not being pushed to the public instance or being pushed
when it shouldn't have.
Magnolia seems to be getting a lot more user friendly these days,
but it still seems to me that the way that it exposes very brittle
configuration in a very raw way is extremely dangerous - it's just
too easy to do the wrong thing and break something without having
the faintest idea why.
I've always thought that the Dialog mechanism would be ideal for
making preference pages - surely it would be better if higher level
configuration pages could be defined in a similar way to the way
that we define paragraph editing dialogues?
just a thought,
josh
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