WYSIWYG Editor preferences per user...leads to more per-user preferences?

[cozimek]

Hey everyone,

I saw some great screenshots of the Joomla 1.0 admin panel, and noticed something that caught my attention.  The release has on its edit/add user screen the ability to choose which WYSIWYG editor each admin gets to use.  Hmm, this didn't seem to be a big issue for our clients, I didn't see many people on the boards clamoring over having the ability to use different editors at the same time.  So i wonder...

Is this an experiment for assinging rights to any component, module, or mambot to admins?  I wonder if anyone has tried using this code to take the next logical step: determining which of the installed components an admin gets to view.

Any insight as to why this feature was added...and how it can be improved, would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
Ryan

[cozimek]

Hmmm...anyone have any ideas on this one?  Looks very promising.

-Ryan

[stingrey]

Short answer is that it could lead to more per user preferences.

In 1.1 there are 2 other options related to the language file for front and backend of a site.



However, the way this was executed is not the way we would go for ACL and for per user choices related to this (architecturally anyway).



Why it was added as we found some need to select an editor of choice, even if the choice is no editor and some would like any editor.
It was fairly easy to implment as it simly meant adding params for users.
We've always had this data field for the #__users table, just never used it.

I'm sure anyone with relevant knowledge could extend this, as one can easily add more params by editing the users.xml file, you would then need to simply add the code to read the params field of the #__users field.

BUt the technology has always been there to do this, we simply implmented this for users.

[cozimek]

Rey,

Thanks for the heads up on this.  Seems like this could be a good stopgap until something more robust comes along.  We'll look into seeing what we can do with this to extend it a little further.

Best,
Ryan