Overview

Title

better quicklinks scalability

Duration

144

Difficulty

Medium

Type

Code, Research, User Interface

Tags

python,javascript,html,css,jinja2,jquery

Mentors

thomaswaldmann,rb_proj,ronny_pfannschmidt,xoraxax

Count

-1

Description

Abstract

Quicklinks are the user-defined (and per-user) part of the navibar - (in the default theme) they are rendered to the right of the configured (and common) navibar links.

Users can use them for server-stored and easily/quickly accessible bookmarks - that's why they are called quicklinks.

Quicklinks don't scale to large amounts currently, because the navibar gets rather ugly then because it wraps and occupies a lot of screen estate.

Can you think of and implement a better solution?

Details

Please keep in mind:

• they are called quicklinks because they are quick to use (in the current approach it is just one click)
• one way might be to use javascript to hide part of quicklinks list if over 5 items, and show link to unhide remainder of list

Note: in moin2, the UI for quicklinks might be still missing or broken, but you can use some fixed configured list for experimentation:

    user_defaults = dict(
        # ... start with a complete copy of this value from MoinMoin/config/default.py ...
        quicklinks = [u"foo", u"bar", u"baz", ],
        # ...
    )

Deliverables: patch or changeset

Skill Requirements

See tags. You maybe don't need all skills, it depends on your idea how to solve the problem.

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