[geeklog-devel] GSOC 2010 application for Improvement in Configurations GUI

[Joe Mucchiello]

At 12:00 PM 3/28/2010, Vincent Furia wrote:
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>On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Joe Mucchiello 
><<mailto:joe at throwingdice.com>joe at throwingdice.com> wrote:
>At 08:46 PM 3/27/2010, Abhishek Shrivastava wrote:
>Overall, this project will completely overhaul the way Configuration 
>works and looks to the user. The end-product of this project will be 
>a totally new version of configurations page with rich GUI based on 
>jQuery, AJAX-based search tools for configurations and 
>per-option-based access control lists for users.
>
>
>I'm hoping I'm reading this incorrectly. But search-based 
>configuration sounds like a bad idea to me. I like the idea of 
>grouping things better. But I still want to be able to slog through 
>page after page of configuration so I can see all the possible 
>configuration options at a glance. Making the configurations respond 
>to "search" would require adding a lot of alias words to the various 
>configuration options.
>
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>I think the idea with the "search" configuration is to supplement, 
>not replace, the existing categorized configuration pages. That way 
>you can slog through all the pages when initially configuring (or 
>reconfiguring) your site. But when you just want to change one item 
>you can just search for it rather than trying to figure out on which 
>page the item is found.

I hope that's what he means, too, Vinny. I just wanted to be explicit 
about it. If he does get all AJAXy about it I can imagine a huge tree 
of configuration options. As long as you can still expand all on the 
tree, that's good enough.


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Throwing Dice Games
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