Re: [webmin-devel] Hiding modules ...

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Martin Mewes wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Just saw the Announce of Webmin version 1.110 and would like to talk
> about this ...
> 
> 
>>* Added a feature to the Webmin Users module for automatically
>>   hiding modules not appropriate to your system.
> 
> 
> Would it be possible to incorporate a "translation flag" into
> Webmin/Usermin in order to see everything despite if a module is
> usable on this or that particular distro?
> 
> WTCO suggests not to make this reachable via Webmin/Usermin itself,
> but somewhere directly in the core "config" of Webmin/usermin as
> 
> <suggestion>
> # Set this to 1 to see everything in Webmin/Usermin even if a module
> # is not suitable for your distro (Zero by default).
> # If set to 1 you MUST have created a separate Webmin/Usermin-User
> # before, because you will actually see everything but you cannot do
> # anything. All stuff will be emulated and no changes will be made to
> # your system.
> 
> translate=1
> transuser=netnerd
> </suggestion>
>
> What I am thinking about is that Webmin/Usermin consists of some
> emulation, ie. hard-coded HTML within a "trans-lib.pl" which emulates
> everything so that translators can actually see where single lings in
> lang|ulang/XX are situated in order to have a chance to translate
> modules which are not suitable for their system.
> 
> I know that this is (maybe) not trivial, but if this would be possible
> I think it would be loved (at least by myself).

I can see how such a feature would be useful for translators, but 
actually implementing it would be tough. Modules that aren't available 
on a particular operating system are that way for a reason - they 
depend upon some program or config file that only the supported 
systems have, so just making the modules visible won't really make 
them usable.

  - Jamie