Re: gallery-preview in the admin area

Hi,

Christian Stocker wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 16.7.2005 19:39 Uhr, Matthias Dieke wrote:
> 
>>Hi Chregu, Alain and all the others ;)
>>
>>
>>few days ago I read the "Fresh-Up for the admin"-post on
>>http://devblog.flux-cms.org/archive/2005/06/28/fresh-up-for-the-admin.html#comments
>>
>>
>>Alain asked for a gallery-preview in the oveview of the admin-frontend.
>>
>>I also though that's a cool idea. Today i made a little implementation of
>>it.
>>
>>Therefor I used the gallery_preview-plugin of the flux cms.
> 
> 
> Looks cool and the idea is still great. We just have to discuss, how it
> really should look like :)
> 
> one solution is to put it in its own tab like "overview" or whatever.
> I'm not sure, if we really have to show the images allways or if it's
> enough, if it's on its own tab.

I think own tab for the gallery-preview is the better way. It could be 
called "gallery-preview".

> 
> One feature to make that more useful would be to remember the state of
> the tabs. So if I click the "overview" tab and reopen the
> overview-screen later, it should right open the overview tab. I added a
> bug report about that:
> 
> http://bugs.bitflux.ch/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=807

Remembering the stat of the last tab is a good idea ;)

> 
> (btw, i started using our bugzilla again, with all those testers it was
> hard to have an overview :) Thanks a lot anyway to all the testers.)
> 
> Furthermore we should make a difference between the start-overview
> screen, where we have under circumstances a lot of "boxes" in contrast
> to the collection-overview screens, where there usually far less and we
> display them there much wider (click on the gallery folder to see the
> difference). So we have more space in the collection-overview than in
> the start-overview.

I know (have seen) the difference ;) You are right, we should have a 
other version for the start-overview. Don't know how, but I will think 
about it ;)


> 
> We also have to discuss what happens, if you click on an image. IMHO it
> should open the image-editor :)

Yes, we should open the image in the image-editor. For my example I used 
the standard gallery.xsl, thats why the image still opens in the 
website. The final implementation will have an own gallery.xsl ;)

Another thing we have to think about is only giving a little preview 
(e.g. 5 pics) or giving a "small" gallery-implementation. That means 
showing a gallery like the one on the website. Also with "next" and 
"previus" link for the gallery-overview?

When we use the "gallery_preview"-plugin only some pics of the gallery 
will be shown?

IMHO, the "normal" gallery-overview is the better way. So the user have 
a overview over the hole gallery. When he click on a image the 
image-editor shold open. That means, we have also "next". and 
"preview"-link in the "gallery-preview"-tab.

Do you know what I means? What do you think?


I will play with the implementation when I have more time. I'm really 
busy this week. Hope that the next week is easier ;)

Matthias


> 
> But all in all you're on the right way.
> 
> In the same direction goes the plan to add latest-comments and
> latest-posts directly in the overview.
> http://bugs.bitflux.ch/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=809 is for that .)
> 
> chregu
> 
> 
> 
>>I didn't commit it, because I'm waiting for the ok of chregu ;)
>>
>>To see the result, login in into www.matthias-dieke.de/admin
>>
>>user: guest
>>pass: guest
>>(If miss-used, I'll shut it down.)
>>
>>The desgin is not my part ;) I just want to give you a first impression.
>>
>>If Chregu thinks it's ok, I will post the code in the mailing-list and we
>>can discuss it if the way of implementation is correct ;)
>>
>>Have a nice weekend.
>>
>>Matthias
>>
> 
> 
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