Re: What's next

I don't have anything to add as far as the 3.1 roadmap is concerned. 

I see what you're getting at with the admin UI. Do you envision an admin toolbar/menu like Drupal and Wordpress provide?

My only concern on dropping the admin theme is the impact on mobile users trying to run admin tasks. I don't know, maybe this is an edge case. Based on my experience I think mobile admin is moving away from the edge. Relying on overlays and dialogs seems to complicate responsive design approaches and favor a separate admin UI. Drupal's overlays are almost unusable on iOS 6 phones.

- Chad

On Feb 22, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Shad Laws <shad-xpYdmXCiSuZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> Adding to what Bharat said, I have a couple other big things I'd like
> to see, too:
> 
> - Add a few tweaks to our resize and thumb generation.  In particular,
> it'd be nice to allow metadata stripping, progressive encoding, and
> jpg conversion.  Also wrapped up in here is a bit more work with
> imagemagick compatibility for some users' installations (disable
> multi-threading, make version number searching more robust).
> - Do a Flash->HTML5 conversion.  Specifically, swap out uploadify, and
> add Flowplayer 5.  We can't *remove* Flowplayer 3 as then we'll be
> breaking flv support, but I've seen some demos where people run both
> (use HTML5 version unless video is Flash, then fall back).
> - Remove the admin theme, and use overlays/dialogs instead.
> 
> The last point probably needs a bit more elaboration...
> 
> Here's my thought: if we compare Gallery's admin approach to that of
> Drupal and WordPress, we seem to *mostly* fit that of Drupal.
> Specifically, we embed a lot of admin functionality in the main UI
> with context menus, etc.  I think this is a great fit to Gallery.
> However, the admin back area remains detached, somewhat more like
> WordPress.  In my opinion, this seems to disrupt the cohesive feel of
> Gallery, especially once you use a non-Wind theme (since there are
> zero contributed admin themes AFAIK).
> 
> It seems like most of the basic building blocks are already in place,
> and we can even leverage tabs to go between admin screens (again,
> copying from Drupal).  I'd bet we can do this in a way that mostly
> maintains backward compatibility with existing themes, too.  And if it
> does break old themes a little bit, it makes sense to do this at the
> same time as the jQuery update.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Take care,
> Shad
> 
> 
> On 22 February 2013 18:19, Bharat Mediratta <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey guys.  3.0.5 has escaped, so I'm thinking about what's up for the next
>> release.
>> 
>> Shad and I seem to have some momentum right now so I'd like to do some
>> significant and non-backwards-compatible changes in this upcoming release
>> and use it to kick off the 3.1 branch.  Here are the major targets:
>> 
>> 1) Update to the latest jQuery and jQuery UI
>> 2) Update to Kohana 3.x
>> 
>> We've done the bulk of the work for #1 above, but there will be a long tail
>> of finishing touches.  Haven't even started on #2.
>> 
>> What other significant changes would you like to see happen in 3.1?  Now is
>> a good time to speak up.
>> 
>> -Bharat
>> 
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