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#13 2006-02-05 19:09:20
- Joey
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
I really love the design of Mary. I hope the admin-layout is going to change like this soon. Philippe, didn’t tried your style, but I also love your design. Thanks for your work.
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#14 2006-02-13 07:26:10
- Logoleptic
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
I like your design, Philippe, although I prefer Mary’s use of “Textpattern orange” at the top.
Any idea when we could see the whole admin interface reworked in clean, table-free code? I’m looking forward to the day when plugins can alter the contents of admin tabs by performing DOM manipulations.
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
finally got around to installing this. huge difference, i also hope it can be incorporated into txp soon.
my only problem is that the top tabs (content/presentation/admin) seem to be hardcoded, or at least are not language aware, even though the subtabs are language aware. is there a quick fix for this?
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#16 2006-02-22 03:41:51
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
wow, sweet work! thanks to both of you Mary and Philippe.
i suppose i found the quick fix for the not-language-aware top nav items kemie mentioned before. it should be only replacing <code>$event</code> with <code>$label</code> in the last line of the modified <code>areatab</code>-function in <code>txplib_head.php</code>.
in <code>txplib_head.php</code>, go find
<code>return ‘<li’.$tc.’><a ‘.$hatts.’>’.$event.’</a></li>’;</code>
and replace with
<code>return ‘<li’.$tc.’><a ‘.$hatts.’>’.$label.’</a></li>’;</code>
and you should be fine.
Last edited by fikifiki (2006-02-22 03:52:21)
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wonderful, fikifiki!
worked like a charm :D
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
Wow. Really nice work mary and phiw.
Wasn’t paying much attention to this for a while, but after giving both themes a try. I can say it DOES make a dramatic difference to zipping around a txp install. Cleaner, better visual cues and more straightforward.
I’m not sure that I want to customize every single TXP install I have though. So I’ve kinda decided to download and keep a base install of TXP with all my Plugins, custom forms, etc, and keep that updated. Then use it as the template for work I do with TXP.
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
Thanks Phillipe! And I thought you had forgotten :) I am downloading now. Does this new version take into account the couple of new .js changes?
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Marvelous! Thank you, phiw13! Let me know if I can help. :)
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
Would anyone be interested in listing all the known plugins which this breaks? Could be helpful? I guess it would be all those which need “hooks” to tie into? Is this all Admin side plugins?
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
Depends on how much the actual structure of each tab’s contents change. Mary’s redesign originally changed a lot of the write tab which would probably require that most plugins that interact with it look for new hooks.
However if most of the changes are to the header they would probably be ok. I’ll need to install this and check it out.
Last edited by hakjoon (2006-03-09 00:41:45)
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#23 2006-03-09 00:51:17
- Mary
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
This isn’t the same as mine at all, it’s just the CSS, images and a couple bits of my markup for the header. It doesn’t change anything anywhere else. From what I can see, all that Nils changed here was very slight, and shouldn’t effect plugins at all.
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#24 2006-03-09 04:14:58
- Logoleptic
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Re: Admin. Facelift, take 2
Mary wrote:
From what I can see, all that Nils changed here was very slight, and shouldn’t effect plugins at all.
That’s good news. Means it’s possible for us to get a cleaner, more user-friendly admin interface without massive breakage. A move away from layout tables should be a longer-term goal, of course, but a new coat of paint on the backend could make Textpattern less intimidating for non-techies.
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