[Luma-announce] [LUMA] New prerelease version for testing

[Wido D. <wi...@us...>]

Hello Luma users, translator and devlopers,
Since I was not very happy with the widget which shows an entries' attribut=
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and objectclasses, I decided to rewrite the whole thing. The old one had so=
me=20
serious flaws with handling binary data and adding attributes. Besides that=
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the look with the three buttons at the bottom was simply ugly.
Since this thing is completely rewritten, it was not tested by other people=
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than me. It would be great if some of you would be able to do some bughunti=
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and give me reports about success or failure.
Here is a simple tour introducing you to some of the new features:

=46irst a screenshot of the old widget:
http://luma.sourceforge.net/images/screenshots/browser1-big.png

And here the new one:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget1.png

As you can see, the three buttons from the bottom are gone. Instead there a=
re=20
some toolbuttons on the top with icons instead of text displayed. If you=20
hover over them, tooltips give you the function of the button.=20
=46rom left to right there are 'Refresh', 'Save', 'Add attribute...' and=20
'Delete...'. 'Save' is only enabled if you really changed a value and=20
'Delete...' only works if the entry is a leaf of the ldap tree.
By default all attributes are read-only, but the text can be selected. The=
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icons on the right of the attributes are for 'Edit...', 'Delete...',=20
'Save...'. 'Save...' is handy for saving binary data such as images. Since =
I=20
was only able to save images, I would like to know from other people if thi=
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works with crypto-keys etc.
'Delete...' is only enabled if the combination of objectclasses permits it.

Now I go on to show you how to add an attribute.
Click on 'Add attribute...' and a wizard pops up.
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget2.png

The listbox holds all attributes which are possible by the given=20
objectclasses. But we are also able to add all attributes which are support=
ed=20
by the server. This is what we are going to do now.
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget3.png

We select the attribute 'birthDate' which belongs the objectclass=20
'evolutionPerson'. We click 'Next' and this is what we get:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget4.png

Here we see a list of objectclasses which support our selected attribute. O=
n=20
the right attributes are shown which must be set if you choose the selected=
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objectclass.
In this case we have only one class and no other attributes which must be s=
et.=20
We select 'evolutionPerson' and click 'Finish'. This is what we get:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget5.png

The new attribute has no value yet and we click on 'Edit...'. A dialog show=
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up and we can enter a value.
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget6.png

After 'OK' we see this:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget7.png

The last thing we have to do, is click 'Save'. The entry gets saved and=20
reloaded from the server.
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/new-objectwidget8.png

That's it for now. The widget has some other nice features which you will=20
notice during testing. I hope there are no real bugs left. If this is the=20
case, I can do a new release the next week.

You can download a snapshot for testing here:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifwd/luma/newwidgettour/luma-1.3pre1.tar.bz2

mfg.
   Wido