[wp-hackers] Revamping the Write Panel

[Roy Schestowitz]

___/ On Fri 15 Sep 2006 03:48:11 BST, [ Angsuman Chakraborty ] wrote : \___

> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> Deaton
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:30 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] Revamping the Write Panel
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>
> On 9/14/06, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
>> Robert Deaton wrote:
>> > On 9/14/06, Craig <nuclearmoose at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Which causes me to wonder how many of those who DON'T turn it off even
>> >> know
>> >> that:
>> >> B) They know HOW to turn it off and
>> >
>> > I still think more people would know they could turn it off if it was
>> > under Options >> Writing. But that's just me, that, you know, thinks
>> > putting Options under the Options menu makes sense.
>> >
>>
>> Options->Writing requires admin privileges.  RTE is a personal
>> Fair enough.
>> preference that anyone should be able to change.  That said, the
>> personal prefs are rather hidden away in the profile.
>
> That they are, but we still only have one. My other proposal from a
> while back to fix this problem (and rid us of the dbx on the write
> page) was to have a link from the Write page that lets users customize
> their view. Sortof like sidebar widgets, users would individually
> choose what boxes should be shown to the right of the editing area,
> and which editor they would like to use. It'd let us keep all the drag
> and drop goodness, but remove it from the Write page where it is a
> hassle and an annoyance since state is not saved across browsers or
> machines, whereas this new approach would be. I posed this before on
> hackers, but never got much of a response, and so I'll open this as
> another thread (hopefully this worked right) and see if we can get
> some responses this time around.

[Angsuman]

> My other proposal from a
> while back to fix this problem (and rid us of the dbx on the write
> page) was to have a link from the Write page that lets users customize
> their view. Sortof like sidebar widgets, users would individually
> choose what boxes should be shown to the right of the editing area,
> and which editor they would like to use.
>
> I second that proposal.

A  similar  proposal  was  made  not so  long  age.  It  was
suggested   that   the  dashboard  should   be   made   more
customisable  and adopt the concept of widgets. I don't know
if  this was implemented or not, but anything that makes the
interface  more 'fluid', or adaptable to the user's need  as
they involve, would have merit.

Best wishes,

Roy

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