November 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Issue page suggestions
by Dries Buytaert 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hello Chad and Derek, after a number of days of actively using the project module changes, I have some first feedback. - You did some impressive work. :) - The comment form, however, is a mess -- both visually and usability- wise. Using it continues to feel awkward. Specifically, I would like to make the following suggestions: a. The netsed fieldsets for the issue settings (i.e. 'Project information' and 'Issue information') drive me crazy. There is no need for the nested fieldsets as the title of the inner fieldsets add very little value. Can we remove the nested fieldsets but keep the form elements? Thanks. b. The 'attach new file' fieldset could be collapsed. Often times, you don't attach a file. I don't feel strongly about this; it's minor. Feel free to leave it as is, if you feel strongly about this. c. The issue settings should be above the textarea for the comment bottom. Having them on the bottom doesn't work for me. The reason is that I find myself using the issue settings to get an overview of the current status of the issue. I don't always change these settings, but I *always* find myself *reading* them before I comment on the issue. You might expect people to scroll up to read the status of the issue, but that's not what I'm doing. Putting the issue settings above the comment textarea would make it flow better, and make things easier for me. - The fact that you can add a comment/follow-up without having to click a 'follow-up link' is a nice improvement. Good idea. Can we try to tweak it a bit and try using a tweaked version for a while? Thanks, -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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I am out of Drupal 6
by Karoly Negyesi 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, I am impatient and thus out of D6 cycle. Sorry. Unless there is a hard menu bug, I am not going to to work on D6 any more. I will work on subscriptions module to get it into a state where it can be installed on Drupal.org so project* D6 does not need its own subscriptions code (and if we so want, it can replace simplenews for what we use simplenews). I will work on D7 stuff because there are so many it scares me. But Drupal 6, no, sorry. Kind regards, Karoly Negyesi

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The forum post for those who think core development is too slow or too fast.
by Karoly Negyesi 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

http://drupal.org/node/190901

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Druplicon: Bot logging has returned!
by Morbus Iff 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Using the module that frando originally wrote months ago as a basis, I have reworked and streamlined bot_log.module for bot.module. This is now committed to the bot.module repository, and is running on Druplicon. Logging is currently enabled on: * #drupal-dojo * #drupal-games * #drupal-support * #drupal-themes If your channel isn't logged, and you want it to be, let me know. #drupal and #drupal-dev will never be logged, so don't ask. In addition to the basic logging capability, there are some new things. * all log entries have a permalink on the timestamp. * logs are in a table, so you can scan down the "Message" line without having to mentally skip over the jags created by long/short nicks. * to make reading even easier, I don't do odd/even row striping. instead I do odd/even nickname striping. this is best illustrated with a demo (note also the use of the permalink): http://www.disobey.com/bot/log/drupal-support/#T342 You'll see here that the colors change based on nicks. When a nick talks more than one line in a row, the color sticks with him. Only when the nick changes does the color toggle. This allows you to quickly read only the Message column, and become visually aware of voice changes without having to check the nick column. * Logs are user role permissioned. You can log a channel and only allow its viewing to those users properly authenticated. Lemme know bugs, etc., etc. -- Morbus Iff ( you are nothing without your robot car, NOTHING! ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Enjoy my: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.60bwc.com/ aim: akaMorbus / skype: morbusiff / icq: 2927491 / jabber.org: morbus

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[PDO survey] Are you on a cheesy shared host?
by Karoly Negyesi 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

And said host already lets you run PHP5.1+ then please run the Example on http://php.net/manual/en/function.PDO-getAvailableDrivers.php and send me the results off list. Please keep [PDO survey] in the subject, I am going to filter on that. Thanks, NK

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[PDO survey] Are you on a cheesy shared host?
by Petr Vacha 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Bluehost: Array ( [0] => sqlite2 )

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Re: [development] [PDO survey] Are you on a cheesy shared host?
by Matt Farina 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

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Formtweaker module seeks (its) maintainer
by Zohar Stolar 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

This is a last try to contact the maintainer of formtweaker module (http://drupal.org/project/formtweaker) I've tried both personal mail and contact form, without success. In the same time, few words about this module and a call for help: Formtweaker.module tries to deal with the proven usability advantage of checkboxes over select menus. It turns taxonomy's selects to checkboxes and radio buttons. Since it has been launched, few improvements were made to it (like treating views exposed filters as well), but no one is able to create new releases. I was made co-maintainer, /without asking for it/, but I still haven't got any privileges for creating new releases (I can only edit the project's page). Since I can't maintain this project, I hereby call pancho, the maintainer, or anyone else who wishes to maintain the project, to step forward, and take over the project. Thanks, Zohar Stolar

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Re: [development] OpenSocial and Drupal as a container
by Roman Chyla 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

for some (like me) who don't know and confused the word "container" for ability of Drupal to wrap other projects ;) http://www.newscloud.com/read/Details_Revealed_Google_OpenSocial_To_Launch_… It would be nice, is Drupal going to adopt the API? roman

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Block Visibility Bug
by Josh Koenig 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

(apologies if this is a dupe post; I've moved to a new computers and am still working to restore all my mail settings) FYI - Found and patched a bug in 5.x (checking HEAD now) that was causing block configuration forms to loose visibility settings in some cases: http://drupal.org/node/115596 Basically Drupal has a lovely feature that allows different themes to have different sets of blocks visible, with different page-specific visibility settings. Unfortunately, the form that's rendered when you are pointed to admin/build/block/configure/<module>/<delta> just takes whatever set of theme-specific visibility settings the database serves up first. This is particularly annoying if you're using an admin theme and mysql decides those records come before your front-facing theme. It gets even worse if you're trying to do clever stuff using multiple themes on a site. Anyway, my fix is simple: add another argument to the config url/link so that when you are editing/saving block visibility settings, you're sure to be doing so for the theme in question. cheers -josh ------------------------------------------ Josh Koenig, Partner http://www.chapterthreellc.com AOL IM: chap3josh 1-888-822-4273

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