[Xerte-dev] Re: Navigator Pages

Fri Jun 12 15:40:07 BST 2015

I agree this is a problem with deprecating them. I'm can't remember what the pages are that have been deprecated in the past but I suspect that they're ones that haven't been widely used. The navigator pages are used a lot and we really wouldn't want them to fail in the future if we make a new navigator page, deprecate the old ones and then make a change elsewhere that stops them working that we don't pick up on because they're deprecated.

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 12 June 2015 15:05
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Navigator Pages

Yes,

I've often thought that also Fay but agree somewhat with what Tom says about deprecating etc...

I've often thought though that could we/should we just be able to force users to switch, not in a controlling way but in a 'helpful' way...

So for example we have a 'text' page which we are going to deprecate... we have a new 'text2' page which has the text functionality but like the new 'navigator' combines several related pages... should we just write out changes to any old page as the new format as soon as it is edited? Just now we don't do that but it wouldn't be crazily hard to do? The thing just now is that we are deprecating things but really we're saying that you just shouldn't use it and that we aren't going to support any more... we aren't forcing them to stop using it if they don't want to and we now have pages that while deprecated are still editable if they exist and they may actually not play nice in the future with updates to xenith for example...

John Smith
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders [reijnders at tor.nl]
Sent: 12 June 2015 14:47
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Navigator Pages

The problem is, that we need to deprecate the old pages. That's no problem in it self. But that would mean that we probably should fix the problems anyway. I would do it anyway, because it will simplify future maintenance.

Tom

Fay Cross schreef op 12-6-2015 om 15:17:
I've got to make some changes to a lot of the navigator pages to fix some problems that Inge found and it's got me thinking about something I think Ron has mentioned before.

Button, tabbed, slideshow and accordion navigators are all identical in the information that the author enters - the only difference is the way you move between sub-pages in the LO. Would it be useful to replace these pages with one new navigator page where you could select which of these appearances you wanted it to have? Or do you think this would be confusing?

It would be easy to do (and then I'd only have to do the changes to fix the bugs once!) What do you think?

Fay

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