Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > I'm in full agreement that "Improving the admin UI" is certainly a > good pre-proposal, and I'm sure there's plenty of tickets that could > fill a SoC. My concern is that "move to using jQuery" isn't a good > line item in a proposal wi

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:44 PM, mrts wrote: > > Sorry if I sounded intrusive, what I meant was that prototyping with > jQuery (or whatever other JS framework) may at the very least provide > a quick way prove that a particular idea works (instead of a time- > consuming plain-JS implementation).

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> It would be _exceedingly_ unwise to advise any student to base a GSoC >> proposal on the use of JQuery (or any other framework, for that >> matter). > > I think that soo

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread mrts
Sorry if I sounded intrusive, what I meant was that prototyping with jQuery (or whatever other JS framework) may at the very least provide a quick way prove that a particular idea works (instead of a time- consuming plain-JS implementation). But it is of course for the BDFLs to decide if that is a

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > It would be _exceedingly_ unwise to advise any student to base a GSoC > proposal on the use of JQuery (or any other framework, for that > matter). D'oh. The reason that Zain is including use of jQuery in this proposal is because I, e

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:02 PM, mrts wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2:41 pm, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> Correct. Django has very deliberately made a decision to avoid >> blessing any single Javascript toolkit. It is unlikely that this will >> change simply because a GSoC applicant has proposed it.

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread mrts
On Mar 31, 2:41 pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > Correct. Django has very deliberately made a decision to avoid > blessing any single Javascript toolkit. It is unlikely that this will > change simply because a GSoC applicant has proposed it. Proposals that > hinge on the use of JQuery (or any oth

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Julien Phalip wrote: > > On Mar 31, 6:53 pm, zain wrote: >> I'm applying for the GSoC with some thoughts to generally improve the >> admin interface. So far, I have the following ideas: >> >> 1) An autocomplete widget >> 2) Drag & Drop support for ordered relatio

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Julien Phalip
On Mar 31, 6:53 pm, zain wrote: > I'm applying for the GSoC with some thoughts to generally improve the > admin interface. So far, I have the following ideas: > > 1) An autocomplete widget > 2) Drag & Drop support for ordered relations > 3) Foreign Key traversal to see and modify models reference

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Manuel Saelices
I think inplace edit functionality could be very useful. You can take a look to this Django application: https://tracpub.yaco.es/djangoapps/browser/inplaceeditform/trunk/inplaceeditform For any model like that: class Book(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=200) body = mod

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Dougal Matthews
- Photo Management - crop, rotate (with ability to add more filters) - Make it easier for people to create custom themes and styles for the admin and change between them - Allow models to be added twice with two modeladmins serving a different process --- Dougal Matthews - @d0ugal

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread mrts
Add and remove instances to/from formsets with a button click is much needed instead of the current delete checkbox and `extra` handling (both for formsets in general and for admin formsets in particular). There is a snippet (that I've not tried) at http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1389/ .

Re: Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Smith
- Dynamic Managers - Select which field you want to filter by and boom. No hard code - Finer Permissions (not exactly an interface suggestion) - Limit the ability of a user right down to the created object - You have many accounts and you can assign an agent permissions to

Call for ideas: Admin Improvements

2009-03-31 Thread zain
I'm applying for the GSoC with some thoughts to generally improve the admin interface. So far, I have the following ideas: 1) An autocomplete widget 2) Drag & Drop support for ordered relations 3) Foreign Key traversal to see and modify models referenced to by ForeignKeys inline 4) Refactor the a