Re: Future of TinyMCE (Mockup, Plone 5)

On 6 Nov 2013, at 10:56 am, Rok Garbas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Dylan Jay (2013-11-05 22:12:20)
>> On 06/11/2013, at 12:12 AM, Rok Garbas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Quoting Dominik (2013-11-05 13:29:01)
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> if I understand correctly TinyMCE will be based on Mockup in Plone 5.
>>>> Currently there is no way to customize TinyMCE in plone.app.widgets.
>>>> What I'm missing is custom (table) styles. (I'd also like to enable text
>>>> coloring and enable/disable some custom plugins)
>>>> 
>>>> Is the customization of TinyMCE simply not implemented yet or will this not
>>>> be possible in Plone 5?
>>> 
>>> not implemented yet. a bit of work is planned for next week sprint (it will be
>>> possible to configure tinymce via p.a.registry). but full blown forms will have
>>> to wait for a bit more. just matter of priorities.
>> 
>> Btw I don't know if anyone has thought about this yet but it would be
>> a lot more useful if custom tinymce styles were defined in the diazo
>> theme rather than the registry.
>> The CSS that implements the styles will be in the theme and when a
>> theme is activated those are the list of styles the editor should have
>> available.
>> 
> 
> with toolbar we actually copy styles from top frame into tinymce's iframe so
> you get same styles as you would expect after you save the document. i have no
> idea why we didnt do this before.

Sorry, I was very clear.

What I meant was the names of the styles that appear in the drop down in tinymce.

ie this kind of list.

Heading|h2
Subheading|h3
Literal|pre
Discreet|span|discreet
Pull-quote|blockquote|pullquote
Call-out|p|callout...


This is something that is a choice a theme creator makes (or plugin developer) about what styles should be able to be used by a content editor.
ie this issue https://trello.com/c/dtDsunyb/9-not-possible-to-add-custom-styles-to-tinymce-s-style-menu-when-activating-a-diazo-theme

Oh, sorry also thought of usecase it would be nice to improve in plone5 tinymce.
https://trello.com/c/4iG8SlWd/44-not-possible-to-have-different-tinymce-styles-buttons-for-different-users
I know it contradicts the styles from theme above, and maybe its just an edge case. It is however a question I've been asked before from more than one client.
Consider the case where you want to allow superusers to use embed tabs or red text, but not users adding ploneboard discussion items.

I'm not saying we have to do this stuff for plone5, but if we're rethinking how configuration of tinymce happens, and if someone smart can work out how to make all this work togeather it would be pretty cool.

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