[OPEN-ILS-DEV] GSoC Proposition

[Jason Boyer]

Do you mean that the same setting might be visible in more than one place on
the settings page? That seems like it would get confusing fast, especially
if changing it in one location didn't immediately update all of the other
instances. I think having a "settings group" field would be helpful for
building a better UI, but restricting a setting to 1 group would be easier
for admins (who are not necessarily software developers or database admins!)
to use, and for software devs/db admins to implement. That's the way the
labels work in Gmail, and precious few people here understand how that all
works. (And Google did eventually have to add a "Move To" button for users,
which just dumbs them back down to simple 1-label-per-email "folders" ...)

Jason

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Joseph Lewis <joehms22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have posted a draft here of what I plan to do (if I'm accepted) during
> > GSoC for you all, if you could reply with some comments that would be
> great:
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1z-LX9O9BDzMZwuwMDz6dZ_7CjdRuXUmIlwU9qExrwJI
> >
>
> Thanks, Joe.
>
> A further idea that is perhaps worth evaluation is the addition of
> "tagging" to settings for the purpose of grouping them into logical
> sets.  This would be a many-to-many relationship as opposed to a
> simple many-to-one grouping as settings may be usefully viewed in more
> than one context.  This would increase the complexity of the task by
> involving more layers (in the least, database changes) and therefore
> may be less appropriate for a GSoC project (IMO, it's still quite
> do-able), but would pay large dividends in terms of flexibility and
> future maintenance if the UI was driven primarily by settings-grouping
> tags.
>
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> Mike Rylander
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>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
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