Re: 2.0.2 tarball ready for testing, start your engines

"Alexander Limi" <limi-z4DKO/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.installers
Organization Plone Solutions · http://www.plonesolu tions.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 11 May 2004 22:35:19 -0700, Andy McKay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Windows one done:
>
> http://www.agmweb.ca/Files/Plone/Nightly/Plone-20040512.exe

Seems to work nicely here. Thanks!

> Had to fiddle my scripts to get dist_plone in there and noticed some  
> registry bugs. Btw upgraded to XController 0.2 which improved start /  
> stop handling.

OK, did some basic testing of the Windows-specific stuff:

- version.txt for the XController has conflict markers, making the About  
page look funny. :)

- Start/stop detection still doesn't work as it should. When I've stopped  
Plone and click the start button, it immediately (in 3ms) flicks back to  
"Plone is not running". If I wait a little, it will switch the button to  
the correct position (10 seconds or so), but this is highly confusing.  
This is a 2GHz Athlon. :]

- Can we have a folder "Development" in the start menu, that contains the  
PythonWin/Python/Plone Debug entries? Since the other icons are much more  
massive, people tend to "miss" it among all the others. The should only be  
one icon on the top level. Also, it should say Plone Controller instead of  
just Plone.

- I made some changes to the wording in the controller, so people  
understand that they have to *restart* to use the emergency user. They  
expect it to "just work" now, which it doesn't. Committed to CVS. :)

- It's not possible to use tab between the fields in the Ports and  
Emergency user pages.

- Status and Ports entries in the menu should switch positions if it's  
trivial to do so. Status should be the top one of the two.

Another thing I noticed while doing some Real User Testing(tm) this week:

The start/stop button being the same button is very confusing, especially  
since it's not always reliable. There should be two buttons, like this:

  _______
|_Start_|   Plone is running...blah
  _______
|_Stop__|

...and the non-relevant one should be ghosted. This way people won't  
double click it, and it will also be a better indicator as to whether  
Plone is running or not.

And, I want a pony. :)

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