I'll work on the patches and get them into ReviewBoard shortly. There is, however, a Jira issue open for the UI Plugin Internationalization. Could someone please grant me access to assign that issue to me. My Jira username is 'csuich2'.
Thanks, Chris On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Pranav Saxena <psb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Chris , > > I think whatever proposals you have mentioned here make a lot of sense and > should help in a better user experience. I would suggest that you submit a > patch/multiple patches as per your convenience for the above mentioned > categories and then we can take it forward from there . I would suggest you > to submit multiple patches for each category because that way it will be > easier to review and merge your changes. A little explanation of the > functionality with each patch you submit would be much appreciated. > > Copying Brian and Jessica to further help in facilitating this process > quickly . Thanks for your work. > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:56 PM, SuichII, Christopher < > chris.su...@netapp.com> wrote: > >> I have a couple UI Plugin related features I'm close to wrapping up and >> I'd like to throw them out to take some feedback: >> >> (I realize this is bad form to discuss the feature after implementation, >> so I apologize for that. However, everything here provides an optional >> feature for plugin developers and shouldn't pose any problem to the >> existing UI.) >> >> UI Internationalization: >> This would allow UI Plugins to contribute their own internationalized >> strings to the global js dictionary. Each plugin would define a >> dictionary.js and several dictionary_<locale>.js files. As each plugin is >> loaded, the appropriate plugin dictionary is loaded into the global js >> dictionary (with the global dictionary taking precedence in the event of a >> conflict). >> >> Re-usable Zone Chart: >> I have extended some functions in zoneChart.js to allow plugins to create >> charts by simply defining their own function which assembles the chart >> itself rather than having to define the chart in zoneChart.js >> >> Dialog value field: >> Currently, the identifying value of json objects is assumed to be 'id' or >> 'name' (if 'id' doesn't exist). I have added the option of allowing fields >> to specify which json property should be the identifying value of an object. >> >> Default value functions: >> Currently, the default value for a UI field must be a constant. I have >> extended the dialog forms to allow default value functions which are given >> the standard 'args' allowing default values to be determined at run time. >> >> has_units field: >> I have added a new dialog field type called 'has_units'. This field has an >> input box side by side with a select box. The select box is populated with >> predefined units (MB, GB, TB, for example) and uses (also predefined) >> conversion functions to allow automatic updating of the input box value >> when the units select box is changed. >> >> Please let me know what the proper course of action is from here. Should I >> go ahead and submit diffs to reviewers or is there any discussion to be had >> before I do that? >> >> Thanks, >> Chris >>
