[Cosmo-dev] Web UI configuration system

[Matthew Eernisse]

There's nothing in conf.js that a sever admin would need to configure, 
at least not now. It's a bunch of constants for setting sizes of pieces 
of the UI in one place.

The only thing that someone might actually want to change would be 
TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY, if they wanted to implement a custom skin. (I do 
seem to remember there was someone who tweaked the HOUR_UNIT_HEIGHT to 
get more hours into the scrolling area for timed events, but the current 
design of the UI doesn't actually support changing that.)

Calling it 'conf' in the first place was kind of misnomer -- except that 
it's something that lets the *developer* easily configure the size and 
placement of UI elements in the layout.

That's not to say we will never need admin-configurable options, just 
that the things in the current conf.js are not those types of options.

Thinking about it now, the only change I might make, aside from trying 
to figure out some external way to config the template directory, would 
be eventually to move all those props into the cosmo.app.pim.layout 
namespace. (And of course do a bit of pruning to remove entries like 
LOGO_GRAPHIC that are no longer used.


Matthew



Travis Vachon wrote:
> Sounds correct to me as well.
> 
> What's the status of the work Bobby is describing?
> 
> -Travis
> 
> On Jun 27, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:
> 
>> On 6/27/07, Bobby Rullo <br at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>> Won't it still be packed up inside the war? If so, it's equally
>>> useless to administrators.
>>>
>>> I believe Jared was doing some work on a system that pulled in props.
>>> stuff from the $SNARF_DIST/etc/cosmo.properties and made it available
>>> to javascript somehow.
>>
>> agree. all app configuration should be done in cosmo.properties, not
>> in a file included within the war.
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