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RE: [wp-hackers] Revamping the Write Panel

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  • Subject: RE: [wp-hackers] Revamping the Write Panel
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:26:14 +0100
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___/ On Fri 15 Sep 2006 03:48:11 BST, [ Angsuman Chakraborty ] wrote : \___

From: wp-hackers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robert
Deaton
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:30 AM
To: wp-hackers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [wp-hackers] Revamping the Write Panel
Importance: Low

On 9/14/06, Ryan Boren <ryan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert Deaton wrote:
> On 9/14/06, Craig <nuclearmoose@xxxxxxxxx> 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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