X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/6fed9b48d54df52ea86badb4be196a28b63e0fd3..42140a88fd366437faa25f8206f995c3a88e3662:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 43c180db4..25723ec55 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -85,40 +85,6 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). ---- -# OpenID - -I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*= - -> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# ACL - -> Moved to [[todo/ACL]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - -Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan - -> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]]) - ----- - -Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just -$config{url}. That way you won't have to hard-code the URL of the wiki into -the template. -- Ethan - -> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# Canonical feed location? - -Moved to [[todo/canonical_feed_location]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - # asciidoc or txt2tags ? Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? @@ -144,6 +110,8 @@ Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX? >> >> --JeremyReed +>>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/). It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]] + ---- # Using with CVS? @@ -182,63 +150,123 @@ Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form ---- -# Disable sub-discussion pages? +# Access Keys + +Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other +wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an +accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those +actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? +--[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) + +> Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at +> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html into account. -Moved to [[bugs]] -- [[Joey]] +>> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to +>> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a +>> a user complaint recently that Alt-e in oddmuse was overriding his access +>> to the browser menu. ---- -# Textile Plugin +# Editing the style sheet. -It was trivial, but I put together a plugin that uses the Textile markup -language, which I find to be the most superior of the various options for -that sort of thing. Where or how do I submit it for inclusion? +It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it. +Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) -> You can post it to [[plugins/contrib]]. --[[Joey]] +> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets file upload support, +> it'll be possible to upload a style sheet. (If .css is in the allowed +> extensions list.. no idea how safe that would be, a style sheet is +> probably a great place to put XSS attacks and evil javascript that would +> be filtered out of any regular page in ikiwiki). --[[Joey]] ->> Thanks. I tried using the "Add new post" form there, but apparently made a [mess of things somehow](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/contrib/textile___40__third-party_plugin__41__.html). Sorry about that. +>> I hadn't thought of that at all. It's a common feature and one I've +>> relied on safely, because the wikis I am maintaining at the moment +>> are all private and restricted to trusted users. Given that the whole +>> point of ikiwiki is to be able to access and edit via the shell as +>> well as the web, I suppose the features doesn't add a lot. By the +>> way, the w3m mode is brilliant. I haven't tried it yet, but the idea +>> is great. ->>> No problem, the contrib form had the wrong rootpage setting. I've fixed ->>> it up and moved it to the right place. A copyright statement would be ->>> nice. +---- -> How does one go about making a markup language added by means of a plugin, the default markup language. In other words, I would like the index page to be written in Textile. -> If I include a index.txtl (where txtl is the extension I have assigned to be handled by the textile plugin), ikiwiki will ignore it and make a new index.mdwn. +# Documentation for banning users? ->> Sounds like a bug; it should be configurable via `default_pageext`, but ->> I suspect that currently if there are two competing files with different ->> extensions that make the same page, they fight it out and some random ->> one "wins" ->> ->> Until I fix that, you can avoid the one from the underlay directory by ->> setting `underlaydir` to point to an empty directory. --[[Joey]] ->> ->> Ok, fixed (in svn), it will now prefer files in the srcdir over files ->> in the underlaydir that build the same page, no matter what extension. +The [[todo]] page says admins can ban users. Where is this documented? I search the source and found +set\_banned\_users() which led me to the CGI "preferences" form for the admin. Now logged in as an admin (as defined in my setup configuration), +I see the field for this. But no details on how to use it. From the source it appears to be a space-delimited list of usernames. (I didn't test yet.) ->>> Thanks, Joey, much appreciated. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) +Can you please provide a [[/banned_users]] documentation about "banning" users function linked from the [[Features]] page and maybe [[security]] page and linked from the "preferences" for the admin? +(I don't do this myself as I am unsure about this and still reading the code about banning users.) ---- -# Access Keys +# Documentation for locking pages? -Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other -wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an -accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those -actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? ---[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) +The [[features]] page, the [[todo]] page and the [[usage]] manual page say pages can be locked and only the admin can edit locked pages. +Where is locking pages documented? ... A moment later, from searching source I found this is configured via the preferences for the admin +and that links to [[pagespec]]. + +Can you please provide a [[/page_locking]] doc about locking pages linked from the [[features]] page and elsewhere? And have that link to [[pagespec]]? +(I don't do this myself as I am unsure about this and still reading the code about locking pages.) ---- -# Editing the style sheet. +# RecentChanges should show path to wiki sub-pages? -It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it. -Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) +The RecentChanges only shows the final file name for the recently changes file, +for example "discussion". It would be more useful to see "index/discussion" +or the path to the sub-page. I think this is handled by the htmllink() routine. + +>> IMHO it's a good idea and I like it. Often I can see changes in +>> any discussion page, but I don't know without clicking the link +>> what discussion was changed. + +>> However, I can see one problem here. You can commit via command line +>> changes in many pages. It will be displayed ugly then, because probably +>> a width of the RecentChanges page will be greater then a width of +>> user's browser. I hate these pages. So I propose to display a list of +>> changed pages in a column, not in a row. --Pawel + +>>> Well, it's a simple [[patch|patchqueue/full_paths_in_recentchanges]]. +>>> For a limited time I have that patch running on this wiki. Undecided if +>>> I like it or not; the width is not really a problem due to the design +>>> of the recentchanges page, but all those paths do clutter up the page +>>> somewhat. Comments? --[[Joey]] + +---- + +# Should not create an existing page + +This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first. +Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists, should not go into "create" mode, but should do a regular "edit". + +> I belive that currently it does a redirect to the new static web page. +> At least that's the intent of the code. --[[Joey]] + +>> Try at your site: `?page=discussion&from=index&do=create` +>> It brings up an empty textarea to start a new webpage -- even though it already exists here. --reed + +>>> Ah, right. Notice that the resulting form allows saving the page as +>>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this +>>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect +>>> thing. --[[Joey]] ---- -# Disable build/install requirement on PerlMagick +# Refreshing RecentChanges page + +What do you think about refreshing RecentChanges page (via Meta Refresh Tag)? +It can be useful for users like me which rather prefer watching the last changes +in WWW browser tab than subscribing to page. --Pawel + +> Depends, if it were done the time period should be made configurable. +> Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some. +> --[[Joey]] + +>> Yes, it should be configurable by ikiwiki admin. I believe he's not +>> stupid and he will not set too short refresh period to kill his server :) +>> I propose to add `recentchanges_refresh` variable in ikiwiki setup +>> to setting refresh period. If it's not defined, then ikiwiki doesn't put +>> refresh meta tag into `recentchanges.tmpl`. Do you like it? ;) --Pawel -Some installs of PerlMagick require X11. I tried to first disable using "img" by using "--disable-plugin img" -in the Makefile. But still failed. My workaround was to remove "img" from the bundle in IkiWiki/Plugin/goodstuff.pm -before building. What is the recommended way to install ikiwiki without "img" support? --[[JeremyReed]] \ No newline at end of file +>>> Seems reasonable --[[Joey]]