Please add your requests for new features here.

A couple of features I think we need before the Alpha release (in order):
1. 4 HTML blocks - Blank blocks that contain just a WYSIWYG text editor for people to do title bars and links bars (this showld be trivial to add)
2. Remove the page loading options which were added only for testing purposes and add some default page layouts (trivial again)

You don't need 4 html blocks. You just need to add the same one 4 times in the admin section.

Move "Clear Entire Page" to the right side of the page. Because if you are trying to expand or contract blocks and the one below the block moves up then your cursor becomes directly in line with "Clear Entire Page". I've cleared out my page 3 times already because of this. I like to click fast to expand or contract things into place.

Never have the edit/save/delete buttons for any module right next to each other or in a place where they might be accidentally hit. There is no confirmation upon clear so this should be addressed in the next update.

Also I think expand should be on the right and contract should be on the left.

I keep clearing the entire page by accident as well. It needs an 'are you sure?' and th e button needs to be somewhere else.

It won't save for me. I click save and it does nothing.

djdevon3 wrote:

Move "Clear Entire Page" to the right side of the page. Because if you are trying to expand or contract blocks and the one below the block moves up then your cursor becomes directly in line with "Clear Entire Page". I've cleared out my page 3 times already because of this. I like to click fast to expand or contract things into place.

yeah, good idea.

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Also I think expand should be on the right and contract should be on the left.

The UI we are going to be inproving a great deal soon - allowing for dragging and dropping support. However what you are currently talking about is actually already there really - there was a css bug that I left in over this weekend that broke the layout of the buttons. It should be back to normal now.

spacebar wrote:

It won't save for me. I click save and it does nothing.

On this site or your own? Do you get any javascript errors? - Can you send me a link.

Some vaild usablility points made here. Messages (confirmations of save, loading/processing throbbers, success notifications, yes/no dialogs etc.) can all currently be handled by the overlays that we use for config, they just haven't been added in yet.

I completely agree about Clear Page button's position. I think top-right would actually be best (then moving Page Config to lower-left). Again, easily fixed.

Keep the suggestions coming!

dave wrote:

spacebar wrote: It won't save for me. I click save and it does nothing. On this site or your own? Do you get any javascript errors? - Can you send me a link.

www.gotpoety.com is my test site. No email registration required if you want to see. I get no errors from javascript, it just doesnt' do anything when I click save.

yep. you found a bug. go into your dragonfly admin - member config and set "allow user theme change" to "yes". The reason for this is that when you save the page it collects the page config to save at the same time - and the users page theme is collected. But the element is missing when the this option is turned off. will fix this tomorrow. But you can get it working now by just turning this on.

By the way - you have the broken css file on your site at the moment - i updated the download file with various small bug fixes.

An idea... How about a block for the front page which automticly lists all the pages users have setup so far?

yeah, sounds like a good idea.
was thinking up other ideas for simple blocks today.
e.g. a youtube block - which just let you copy the "embed" code into a content element and then displayed the video on your page.

I think it might be an idea to have a topic about blocks - requests etc.

I know we already have one request (from spacebar) - a configurable userinfo one that lets the user choose which elements of their profile they want to display.

Another idea for block settings - vissible to who... Me Only, Site Members, Public

This will let people put embarrasing pictures of themselves and friends on their home page (but what should the default be... )

yeah. very good idea. default should be visible to everyone of course. as thats what a user would expect.
The real question is... what happens to the layout if a block just isn't displayed at all. Does it leave a space, or does it collapse - which could break the rest of the layout.

It would have to leave a space, with some kind of "this content is for members only" message inside the block.

Sounds good to me - this could even be configurable per Block so the block designer could specify a default filler

Why would that be necessary? Seems to me like the appearance of a block that you are not authorised to view should be up to the theme designer.

I don't know... I 'spose the question is if you even want people to know what type of blocks your hidind (if you're not displaying the type then leave it to the theme designer) - But 'spose you had a particularly lewd Avatar you wanted hidden the block designer may put a default Avatar in or suppose its a Picture you want hidden the block designer may have a defualt pic (such as the site logo) that could take up the space.

If a block is hidden would people want the block type hidden as well?

I think it would be pretty simple to do it both ways.
Implementation:
Block settings : Display to: All visitors, registered, group 1, group2, admins.
Theme takes care of a block hidden to a user.
and...
In a block file we provide an easy api (which I think already exists anyway) to let the programmer go in the php:
if visitor then
display this
else
display content

yup

agreed

The configuration popup's should adhere to the .body class for bgcolor. If you have a site with a dark background and white text (such as mine) then the text is unreadable in the current state.

You are sort of correct. Rather than adding a .body class to anything (cos that seems really pointless), Its easier just to edit Personal_Home.css to suit your theme. This is the part that controls the colour of the popups (it's at the top of the file)

Code:

#personal-home .window { background-color: #fff; border: #ccc 4px solid; }

I will try and make integration with themes better when my computer has proper internet access.

As you may have heard, most of fivemind have just moved house so we are a bit curtailed. You should be able to easily fix it yourself for testing though by defining a text colour or changing the background colour of popups to suit your theme (this is why we made the CSS customisable per theme in the first place).

Hi yer

Idea i have had as i have been fishing around looking at what is being built
I went onto bounty and look at the screenshots of the new module Classifide for buying and selling products... i was thinking of music artists having there own homepage but could some how tie in there advertising of there latest ablum or members products.

there for giving there homepage something functional to promote

other ideas with myspace they have post a message how about dragonfly having post a recorded voice message as well as text and pictures.. this giving it the edge and advantage over others things that are out there.

also i think having each user there own shout board would be better then how myspace have got it i.e. crap loads of messages and heaps of major large graphics all loading onto one front page which slows it all down and makes it look a complete mess. either shout board or some form of control as to how much and how big a message you can leave on there...

cheers Tim Station Founder
www.radiogetswild.com/

We are currently looking at doing individual shoutboxes - i'm not sure of the specifics, but I believe it would mean using a shoutbox which uses a flat file to store the messages rather than DB access. (Correct me if I'm wrong dave).

Not sure about the wisdom of a voice message, but it should be possible. Classified ads would be good too.

The important point to make here is that all this is currently possible for block designers. We really want the community to get involved in writing blocks so that we can get on with improving the core. Block design is pretty easy, try experimenting with the blocks included in the release, and check out the wiki.

flat files can get pretty large is someone/group is a shout whore. what about making an additional field for it in _users_fields or something like that? I would gladly create an additional field for that kind of community feature.

hehe, i assume that was tim logged in as me up there.
anyway. i discussed flat file as a method a while ago for instant chatting - as its far quicker than using a database for most people - especially those on shared hosting.

A normal shoutbox like the one that dragonfly has currently would be extremely easy to adapt to be on a per-user basis. This module would be very simple to write in fact - it would just involve modifying the shoutbox message table to include the userid for whose personal page it belongs to.

A personal shoutbox would be nice, especially if it had two simple (?) features:

1. If being done as a flat file or not, allowing the Admin to set a "maximum" size, after which it starts deleting the OLDEST entries.

2. The ability to reply to another persons Shoutbox either with a Reply-link directly to their Shoutbox or even a pop-up with an text entry area.

Containers need to be able to have a border element.