[pmwiki-users] Supporting different modes in default pmwiki
Radu
radu at monicsoft.net
Tue Aug 9 14:34:04 CDT 2005
At 01:47 PM 8/9/2005, Neil Herber wrote:
>Unless you are talking about multiple floating windows (or OS X
>widgets), I find it hard to imagine how a "view" would incorporate
>something like a calendar.
Calendar functionality (as in what's available on a PDA) can be
placed in a 150-200px wide side bar, and many sites have it. Many CMS
systems offer it too.
It's a list of links organized as a calendar and with the date cells
color-coded with what is available in the calendar on that day. Or a
list of upcoming events. Or any other calendar view you may have need
for. Not that I like it particularly, but it's a good thing for
collaborative projects to have.
> I would want to or expect to go to a calendar page. Perhaps what
> is needed for the unimaginative such as me are a few mocked up
> pages (done in Photoshop if need be) that show me what particular
> "views" look like and cause me to slap my forehead and say "Oh! I
> can't do without the Zoidberg view!"
I'd prefer to work on the skin rather than do a mockup of something I
know exists :)
I tried to look for an example online, but that's just wasting time,
since it was just a suggestion for what kind of tools we may need on
the wiki 'desk'.
>Note that in the portion of your list above, four of the items
>(tables, drawings, equations, and help) are all "tools" I would
>expect to encounter on the edit page only.
Yes, that is where I listed them. Tools for the edit page the
toolbars of which may be on or off in order to save space.
>>* an admin view (if not several), with specialized bars for easier
>>navigation to admin pages and other nooks where the authors should
>>not poke their noses (including the pages used to maintain/edit the
>>toolbars and views)
>
>I accomplish this by having a single link in my sidebar to my admin
>group, which is read-protected.
Cool. And you probably no not mind the extra clicks that take you
away from the page or group you're trying to admin. However, I expect
a basic admin would like to be able to move around the site while
seeing a quick review of the settings currently in effect on each
page, where they just make the change they want and click Update.
>>You could agree though, that the few of us who find the idea of
>>views appealing can continue working on it, right? ;)
>You make it sound like I might disagree with this statement, which I
>do not. People should never be discouraged from working on (legal)
>things that enthuse them - you never know what kind of benefits might ensue.
Naw, I was joking (therefore the emoticon). I think we agree on this.
>I do wonder if some of the enthusiasm and energy would be more
>helpful to the PmWiki cause if it was directed to more mundane
>things, such as cleaning up the current docs.
As I said before, I tried a few times, but I don't think I'm
knowledgeable/authoritative enough to make the changes I feel are needed :(
Cheers,
Radu
(www.monicsoft.net)
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