[OPEN-ILS-DEV] GSoC Proposition

[Joseph Lewis]

I can see that this might be useful if settings pages were generated
on-demand, then "recipes" could be created where you told the software which
settings to show to the user; but there is another merit to the tagging from
what I see: hints could be given based upon relationships, like the "you
might also be interested in" that now shows up in Windows control-panels.
Another possible feature is if users are changing many tags in a row that
have a similarity the program could check if they might have "missed" one by
mistake.

Under the current structure it would still probably make sense to have a top
down approach with logical sectioning, but labels could add some extra aids
to the developers.

What do you think?

- Joe

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Jason Boyer <jasonb at myjclibrary.org> wrote:

> 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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>>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
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>
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