[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] My Sakai 2.10 wish list

[Steve Swinsburg]

IMO it makes sense to have a sensible default name for tools. And Site Info
is not really representative of what the tool does so maybe it should
change. Though it is possible to be overriden via tools.properties isnt it?


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Poindexter, David Ray <davpoind at iupui.edu>wrote:

>  Why does renaming have to be in code? See, you have name "x" and then
> for internationalization, you have a way to specify replacement text based
> on locale.
>
>  This is the name of a tool. It really shouldn't be that hard to have a
> default, and then an easy override.
>
>  In short, no, I do not think any effort is worth spending on getting the
> entire Sakai community to agree on a name, unfortunately.
>
> Thoughts?
> --
> David Poindexter
> Sent from my mobile
>
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:12 PM, "Steve Swinsburg" <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>   Site info has had an overhaul in trunk and looks great. It would be
> nice to drop page order and roll that functionality into site info. I
> actually disable the ability to add tools from page order since its
> duplication.
>
>  +1 for site settings as the name.
>
>  Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 07/06/2013, at 0:37, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   Alan****
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> What a fantastic list. I too dream of consistency – I think a lot of
> inconsistency comes from the different page templating systems, Wicket,
> JSF, RSF etc. they all have their own calendar widget and so on.****
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> I have some comments.****
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> + Ass 1 vs Ass 2****
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> We’ve thrown our lot in with Ass 1 and intend to port the handful of
> improvements that Ass 2 has over Ass 1 , whether we’ll have time is another
> matter. We are currently rewriting the Turnitin integration to use the new
> SDK.****
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> + Site Info – perhaps the name could differ on role Site Manage (for
> ‘staff’) Site Information (for ‘students’)****
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> + Page Oder – terrible name, I agree. The tool is also beset by problems
> and could do with an overhaul. If you use the Page Order tool, do you
> really need edit tools, isn’t all the edit Tools functionality covered by
> Page Order. Edit Tools could be dumped and replaced by an improved page
> order tool called “Tool Management”****
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> + Forums: “Too many tabs error” – I agree, how annoying!****
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> Keep up the good work.****
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> adam****
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> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org<sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org>]
> *On Behalf Of *Regan, Alan
> *Sent:* 06 June 2013 11:04
> *To:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org;
> sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] My Sakai 2.10 wish list****
>
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> All,****
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>
> Before the conference is over, I wanted to share my "wish list" for Sakai
> 2.10.  My list is based on feature requests and comments made about Sakai
> at our institution.  Just wanted to see if any of these items are also of
> interest to the broader community.****
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>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nk8EpN9hlnIP68CuUl_V3WnQ5dhcj-moSmFKqX3t8Dk/edit?usp=sharing
> ****
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> or****
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> http://bitly.com/sakai2-10-wish****
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> Thank you!****
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> Sincerely,****
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> Alan Regan****
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