[geeklog-devel] GSOC 2010 application for Improvement in Configurations GUI

[Joe Mucchiello]

At 08:46 PM 3/27/2010, Abhishek Shrivastava wrote:
>Overall, this project will completely overhaul the way Configuration 
>works and looks to the user. The end-product of this project will be 
>a totally new version of configurations page with rich GUI based on 
>jQuery, AJAX-based search tools for configurations and 
>per-option-based access control lists for users.

I'm hoping I'm reading this incorrectly. But search-based 
configuration sounds like a bad idea to me. I like the idea of 
grouping things better. But I still want to be able to slog through 
page after page of configuration so I can see all the possible 
configuration options at a glance. Making the configurations respond 
to "search" would require adding a lot of alias words to the various 
configuration options.

I like the idea of having a separate control table for config info. 
the conf_values table should just have the data. A separate table 
should be used to control the configuration layout. As for 
permissions, I would suggest looking at SEC_hasRights. You should 
have two fields in the database: the first is a comma separated list 
of features. The second is either "AND" or "OR". You then pass these 
two fields directly to SEC_hasRights to see if the user can modify 
that configuration option.


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Joe Mucchiello
Throwing Dice Games
http://www.throwingdice.com 



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