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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #15, on February 14th, 2012, 07:28 AM »Last edited on February 14th, 2012, 07:35 AM by TE
very nice, I like it  :)

Some suggestions:
Forum - Boards -> should be named "Categories and Boards"
Media - About -> should be moved elsewhere (e.g. combined with action=credits)
Plugins - Packages (old) -> should be removed or at least made hidden.

PS: the side bar is broken within the admin center screen.
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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #17, on February 14th, 2012, 09:19 AM »
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Forum - Boards -> should be named "Categories and Boards"
Agreed.
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Media - About -> should be moved elsewhere (e.g. combined with action=credits)
Agreed, though I've been inclined to let Nao handle that one, I don't like treading too hard on Aeva's toes.
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Plugins - Packages (old) -> should be removed or at least made hidden.
Well, I left it up in case I wanted to use any of its code but since I'm not sure how much of the old code I'm keeping, I'm actually tempted to strip it out entirely and use SVN grab anything that I do actually want out of it.
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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #18, on February 14th, 2012, 02:57 PM »
Ah, the about/changelog page... I don't care about the about page, but I always thought the changelog page was beautiful. I'd like to keep the code around (maybe move it to the attic?), in case we want to use it later on, to convert our changelog to a file that'd be viewable within Wedge... I dunno.

You can remove package code all you want, btw :)

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #19, on February 14th, 2012, 03:03 PM »
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Forum - Boards -> should be named "Categories and Boards"
I've done this on my SVN copy, though I've called it Boards and Categories as you'll spend way more time in there poking at boards.
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I don't care about the about page, but I always thought the changelog page was beautiful.
Mind if I attack the about page then and move things to the relevant places where they come up in the admin panel? Just there's more in the about page than just 'about' AeMe.
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You can remove package code all you want, btw
Yeah, I think I will attack it once I've got to a reasonably happy place with this code I'm working on today, just so it's out the way and if I need to refer back to it, that's what SVN's for :P
Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #20, on February 14th, 2012, 03:51 PM »
Oh, and to those who were wondering, I don't have my Mac on right now (so I don't have a screenshot handy), but the base inspiration for this control panel was Mac OS X's System Preferences page.

Knowing that there are some anti-Mac people here, do I need to get my running shoes on now? :P And whether you like or dislike Apple's policies, I don't think there's much denying that they know how to build approachable UIs.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #21, on February 14th, 2012, 05:01 PM »
You have my authorization for the About page. Do delete the credits and stuff like that, if anything needs to be moved to the credits page feel free, but you don't have to keep the credit for Dragooon and I (unless he begs to differ, of course, but he's already in the Consulting Dev list in the credits page.)

I don't like Apple's UIs very much. Maybe that's why I'm not particularly drawn to the admin homepage? :lol:

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #22, on February 14th, 2012, 05:15 PM »
In terms of moving I was thinking stuff like the GD/FFMPEG/ImageMagick stuff could be moved to the page where all the versions of things are shown ;)

But I'll look at it once I'm a bit further along with this UI.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #25, on February 14th, 2012, 06:44 PM »
Which is probably going to happen sooner than my finishing the auto-suggest rewrite, ah ah... (it's totally fucked up, if you don't mind me saying so. And here I was, hoping it would be easy enough to deal with single and multiple entries all the same, replacing findmember calls as needed... Ah ah.)

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #26, on February 17th, 2012, 12:29 PM »
So I started on this today.

I'm thinking that the AeMe changelog - like the SMF changelog - probably should be removed from the admin panel as a general rule, even as nice as AeMe's changelog page is. What occurs to me is that we should keep that stuff on wedge.org (perhaps separated by month, or by release or something, and even then it only needs to occur after we hit alpha, because then we just track changes between releases since alpha)

Thoughts?

(I'm still figuring out how I want to handle the rest of the items like FFMPEG/IMagick, but I got safe mode in there is a way I'm happy with for now)

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #27, on February 17th, 2012, 12:33 PM »
- AeMe changelog should go, it's no longer relevant anyway, only for AeMe itself, and even then this'll eventually go too...
- SMF changelog should obviously go. I'm not even sure why it's remained in the SVN after all this time... :P Well, it has its uses, I guess, when I'm searching for a rare text entry and I'm not sure of the spelling... If it shows up in the SMF changelog, then I know I wasn't mistaken and I can keep looking elsewhere...
- Changelog/readme conversion code is what should stay, IMO, but I don't know what for... :P
- At the very least, it should stay in the attic.

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Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« Reply #28, on February 17th, 2012, 12:41 PM »
Well, I'm just taking a break to go have a shower (always good for clearing the mind), then I'll look at moving the conversion code to the attic, and dropping the existing changelogs from the current repo, which will take about an MB out of the current deployment size in total, I'd say...

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