Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-16 Thread Oren Bochman
[mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bináris Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 7:44 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings 2012/4/15 Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com Hi! I would love to be able to manage my settings

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-16 Thread Platonides
On 16/04/12 02:08, Andrew Garrett wrote: *I* rewrote the preference system, and my proposed patch for global preferences was part of that package. It was reverted, mostly to ease review load. I think that's pretty much what I did when I implemented it (I had a local flag to disable global

[Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
Hi! I would love to be able to manage my settings in one place - skins, language, gender etc. - rather than having to guess which option is which in a foreign language where I may even have chosen Cologne Blue in some distant past... I have found no way in the current setup to do so. Am I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I would love to be able to manage my settings in one place - skins, language, gender etc. - rather than having to guess which option is which in a foreign language where I may even have chosen Cologne Blue

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to be able to manage my settings in one place - skins, language, gender etc. - rather than having to guess

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Petr Bena
I could be easily preference of users to pick if they want to use global settings or override it, should be very easy to implement On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Thomas Gries
see open issue https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950 and the bugs marked as duplicates to it. Global preferences importance = high ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: see open issue https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950 and the bugs marked as duplicates to it. Global preferences importance = high Thanks. I'll just sit over in the corner impatiently, then :-) --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Garrett
I wrote it once upon a time (in about 2009). It was never reviewed, and I could never find a sensible way to set up an interface for it. Not all preferences are transferrable, not everybody wants any shared preferences at all. I thought about using a whitelist and a single opt-in/out option, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Petr Bena
It would be better if user could override it on local wiki, or kept using global one, per project On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wrote it once upon a time (in about 2009). It was never reviewed, and I could never find a sensible way to set up an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Platonides
On 15/04/12 21:47, Petr Bena wrote: It would be better if user could override it on local wiki, or kept using global one, per project He could now. Preference system have been rewritten since that time. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/04/12 21:47, Petr Bena wrote: It would be better if user could override it on local wiki, or kept using global one, per project He could now. Preference system have been rewritten since that time. *I* rewrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-15 Thread Bináris
2012/4/15 Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com Hi! I would love to be able to manage my settings in one place There is somewhere a bot that does it for you, but I don't remember where I saw it. -- Bináris ___ Wikitech-l mailing list