Topic: West Coast Kete Proposed Enhancments
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A discussion about enhancements or refinements as mentioned by vin7803 on YouTube.
It's nice to see Kete mentioned in a wider forum and receive public feedback. I think a video is a great way to start a discussion about what enhancements or refinements people want. It's nice and specific.
Here are some starter questions to get further discussion going:
- What do people think of the issues outlined? Breaking them up as a list would be a great first step.
- What's your preference for addressing any one of these issues?
- If you have used a later version of Kete than the video, do you feel like a particular issue is already addressed?
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Hi Andy,
Some of the features that are completed and will make up the 1.2 release do address some of Vin's point already. Specifically there is now a combined form where you can pick which basket you would like to add your item to from wherever you are on the site.
We're basically one feature away from "feature freeze" meaning that we won't add anything new to the 1.2 code base, just address any bugs people find.
I'm hoping to finish to get onto that last feature shortly. It's a way for site administrators to limit changes that basket administrators can make to their baskets. I'm calling it "basket profiles" and basket administrators will only be able to choose from those basket profiles that a site administrator makes available as options for them. This is very necessary for sites that expect to allow regular members to create baskets. Sort of the myspace model for baskets.
So what is in the "master branch" of Kete's codebase is very close to what will be the 1.2 release. Feel free to set it up and demo it.
Posted on February 19th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Oh, about the media insert browser and TinyMCE.
TinyMCE has a plugin architecture that can take custom javascript to extend its functionality. I would think that a custom Kete Items Browser is entirely possible to implement.
That said, there were requests for better display of audio/image/video/document detail pages during the last Community Meeting (i.e. a video player is embedded in the video detail page ala YouTube by default). I would say that those enhancements come first logically since they may inform a media browser's interface.
Tags: audio, video, image, media browser, tinymce
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Andy Robertson
said Vin has some good points
Is there a newer official released version of kete ? ψ
Some of his points are good. Most of the middle section of the vid is simply making the menu interface a little more obvious, I didn't really notice that the help link scoots across the menu when you click on it to be replaced with the help link to browse the help basket. I can see how he got confused there with the topic and the browse actions appearing to happen from the same link.
It would be fab to have a super duper ajax based insert my media inline editor from the gallery of media already on the site. Complex looking to implement though.... Possibly require ripping out the tiny_mce editor and replacing it with something else.