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Title: Guess the Feature
Post by: Arantor on February 19th, 2013, 06:05 AM
So I'm working on a new feature and as ever this means new UI, and I suck at UI.

But here's the WIP as it stands. I'm sure you'll have no difficulty guessing what feature this is (first picture is older than second, it's still evolving and nothing is set yet)
Title: Re: Guess the Feature
Post by: Farjo on February 19th, 2013, 11:32 AM
That will be an excellent feature to have (and the UI looks good to me).
Title: Re: Guess the Feature
Post by: Arantor on February 19th, 2013, 09:38 PM
For those wondering what the 'doing it properly' comment was all about... hopefully this will explain it, when I mention that there are something like 48 email templates (including 1 I removed today because I cannot find anywhere in the code it is triggered)

Yes, I did go through every email template (including in some cases tracing back through the code) to figure out what variables could be used in that template. The result is worth it, though. Don't ask me why some of those variables are present, I have no idea.
Title: Re: Guess the Feature
Post by: Nao on February 19th, 2013, 09:41 PM
It's one of the most frightening language files there are.......

Okay, it's THE most frightening one... ;)
I actually always refused to touch it when I took over the task of overviewing the translation. It's the only file I didn't touch (along with the Manual, because it was to be gone soon after anyway...)

Oh my, I just noticed there are several more unread topics for me here from last night...... Oops :^^;:
Busy with stuff.

Oh, can't bother to find the proper topic for this quick one: I'm currently reviewing the various icon files for Wedge, and noticed there's still msntalk.gif in there... Shouldn't we move it to a skype.gif icon..? Also update ManageMemberOptions.php for that, I guess..? I don't know much about MSN, but I heard they'd switched over completely to Skype...
Title: Re: Guess the Feature
Post by: Arantor on February 19th, 2013, 09:53 PM
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It's one of the most frightening language files there are.......
And it's much nicer now. Or it will be when it's committed. I ripped out the secondary layer of arrays, plus all the random documentation blocks and it's looking much friendlier (bad news: there's an extra line of language per email template as the one-line description, sorry about that)

But that's sort of the point of this feature - so that people who want to customise it never have to touch the file manually.
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Oh, can't bother to find the proper topic for this quick one: I'm currently reviewing the various icon files for Wedge, and noticed there's still msntalk.gif in there... Shouldn't we move it to a skype.gif icon..? Also update ManageMemberOptions.php for that, I guess..? I don't know much about MSN, but I heard they'd switched over completely to Skype...
Removing it is easy enough. Switching over, not so much. I couldn't find out with any reliability what the Skype user name would be or what the rules are, or for that matter what to put as the link (with any reliability) so it sort of fizzled out on that score.
Title: Re: Guess the Feature
Post by: live627 on February 20th, 2013, 02:14 AM
I didn't realise there was so much mail :o
Title: Re: Guess the Feature
Post by: Arantor on February 20th, 2013, 02:15 AM
Yeah, it's pretty horrendous actually. I know I've added one template to Wedge since we started and I've removed one today. It is possible others were removed in the meantime but I can't put my finger on if/when that happened.

The file is much tidier now.