[libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Wheatland
One thing I am finding infuriating about the Silverstripe UI is the commit comments popup. Commit comments are very important for us to allow tracking and reasoning/discussion about changes made to the site. In fact, one might say they are the backbone of a versioning system. The thing that bugs

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-26 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Michael, *, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: > > The thing that bugs me is that I cannot change tabs in order to copy > text or insert a link reference once the comments popup is displayed. > Is anyone else finding this incredibly annoying? No - as why would you stil

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Wheatland
> Sorry, but I really don't get your problem. If you're not done with > the work, then don't publish. As easy as that. > If you want to paste something into the comment-box, copy it before > hitting save & publish, that isn't that hard to adapt to, is it? > just hit cancel, dialog is away, copy, hi

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-26 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Michael, *, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Michael Wheatland wrote: > > Having a popup which stops me using my browser is very annoying. > > Is this a Silverstripe bug? Well - when it's working as designed, you cannot really call it a bug, can you? But I'll see how much effort it is to tur

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi Michael, *, > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Michael Wheatland > wrote: >> >> Having a popup which stops me using my browser is very annoying. >> >> Is this a Silverstripe bug? > > Well - when it's working as designed, you cannot

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-26 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Michael Wheatland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Christian Lohmaier > wrote: >> >> But I'll see how much effort it is to turn that one into a non-modal one. >> > It just seems to be an inconsistency with the UI, it holds you out > from doing oth

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi *, > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Michael Wheatland > wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Christian Lohmaier >> wrote: >>> >>> But I'll see how much effort it is to turn that one into a non-modal one. >>> >> It just se

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-27 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Michael, please try to work on your quoting, the fullquotes are a very bad habit... On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Christian Lohmaier > wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Michael Wheatland > > Rimas is correct, I was ref

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> If this is a non-pluggable part of the Silverstripe UI, I don't expect >> you to do anything about it. I just think it is poorly implemented UI >> and was looking for other options to improve our experience. > > That's bullshit, sorry

RE: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-27 Thread Narayan Aras
I would like to bring a fresh perspective to this debate: The pop up comes as the final step when someone submits changes. The box is designed as modal for a SPECIAL purpose: You are NOT supposed to submit any change without a justification/remark. Making it modal actually preserves the overal

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Narayan Aras wrote: > > I would like to bring a fresh perspective to this debate: > The pop up comes as the final step when someone submits changes. The box is > designed as modal for a SPECIAL purpose: You are NOT supposed to submit any > change without a justif

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-27 Thread Harri Pitkänen
On Friday 28 January 2011, Michael Wheatland wrote: > Now that someone has explained why it was implemented that way I > understand the reasoning. > I still would like to copy and paste links in there from other tabs. > ie. discussion links on Nabble. > Guess I will just have to remember to copy th

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Wheatland
2011/1/28 Harri Pitkänen : > On Friday 28 January 2011, Michael Wheatland wrote: >> Now that someone has explained why it was implemented that way I >> understand the reasoning. >> I still would like to copy and paste links in there from other tabs. >> ie. discussion links on Nabble. >> Guess I wil

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-01-31 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Michael, On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Christian Lohmaier > wrote: > [...] > I am simply raising my concerns > regarding the web infrastructure that we are using, which we can > hopefully fix. Well, you don't want me to change t

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-02-01 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > Well - what you write doesn't make any sense at all. Again: > * You complain about the modal prompt > * I propse to change it > * You don't want me to change thte CMS' code To give some context,I subscribe to the view that hacking the

Re: [libreoffice-website] Silverstripe UI question - Annoying persistent popup

2011-02-09 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Michael, *, On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: > > To give some context,I subscribe to the view that hacking the core CMS > code means that you 'might' introduce new bugs, resulting in something > that cannot be supported by the CMS community. cmsworkflow is already a mo