Re: [Tiki-devel] Inline plugins prefs: do we still need this?

[Nelson Ko <ne...@wo...>]

Setting via the plugin is a good idea in my opinion. It just hasn't
come to me the cleanest way to do that to all plugins (yet)  though.

Nelson,


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Marc Laporte <ma...@ma...> wrote:
> hehe, as I wrote above, it's "confusing for admins and probably almost
> never used."
>
> luci: (now that you understand the feature) do you see a use case for this?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:34 PM, luciash d' being <lu...@ti...> wrote:
>> ah, you mean it just prevents displaying of the edit helper UI icon ?
>> then i apparently misunderstood this pref... sorry
>>
>> :)
>>
>> greets,
>>
>> On 08/31/2011 09:15 PM, Nelson Ko wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately all the inline pref does for a plugin is to suppress the
>>> edit UI from appearing (so that it can be safely used "inline" so to
>>> speak). Sometimes this is needed. For example if you want the output
>>> of the plugin to be part of a href link. If there is UI that is output
>>> together with it I think parsing breaks.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:02 PM, luciash d' being <lu...@ti...> wrote:
>>>> huh ?
>>>>
>>>> i bet we need this !
>>>>
>>>> iirc this is needed when you want to put an icon to the tiki edit
>>>> toolbars and insert chosen wikiplugin quickly inline in one click
>>>> without the need to pop-up the edit plugin jQuery UI, e.g.:
>>>>
>>>> You create custom icon for inserting a linebreak to clear some floated
>>>> element and you want just to click on icon in the toolbar and this
>>>> appears in your textarea directly:
>>>>
>>>> {HTML()}<br style="clear: both" />{HTML}
>>>>
>>>> This is just an example but this can be especially useful for Plugin
>>>> Aliases inserting some often repeated syntax...
>>>>
>>>> I hope I understood the inline plugin pref correctly :)
>>>>
>>>> greets,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/31/2011 05:56 PM, Marc Laporte wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> 2 years ago, Nelson added "Disable edit plugin icon (make plugin
>>>>> inline)" prefs as a quick fix just before a release:
>>>>> http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki?view=revision&revision=18618
>>>>>
>>>>> AFAICR, this was because back in the days, editing plugins within
>>>>> plugins was not as sweet as it is now.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this hundred+ prefs are confusing for admins and probably
>>>>> almost never used.
>>>>>
>>>>> How about we:
>>>>> 1- remove all these prefs,
>>>>> 2- Put the current defaults as part of the plugin code (so people that
>>>>> really want it can still change it)
>>>>>
>>>>> 3- And perhaps there could be a param when using the plugins?
>>>>>
>>>>> So instead of:
>>>>> {BOX(title="This is a title" align="center")}This is the text{BOX}
>>>>>
>>>>> We could have:
>>>>> {BOX(title="This is a title" align="center" inline="y")}This is the text{BOX}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> luci
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