Re: What's next

Unless there's a module to do this (yeah, I should be the one to know, I
know ;-) )....user integration within larger sites (Drupal, WP, etc...)

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Chad Kieffer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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