[dokuwiki] Re: [PATCH] recent changes buttons should respect current $ID

Andreas Gohr wrote:

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 12:43:11 +0100
Michael Klier <chi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Michael Klier wrote:

Hi everyone,

currently the "recent changes" buttons don't respect the current
page $ID. Means if you press "recent changes" the "show page"
button will always bring you to the start page of the wiki instead
of the page you pressed "recent changes". The attached patch fixes
this behaviour.

Just a little reminder ;-) - are there any objections?


Ah, right I forgot about that one. Yes there is one thing. A long time
ago, the do=recent action kept the ID context. Then the recent changes
function was changed to take the current ID into consideration. This
means if you are in a namespace only changes inside this namespace are
listed. Then people complained about this being unintuitive, so it was
changed to always go to the start page. Now there is your patch to
revert this.

Personally I don't care - any of it is fine with me. Does anyone have
any suggestions how we can settle this once and for all?
I think this ties back to the implementation of the action commands in general.
It would be nice if there was a separate command set for "global" and "page" actions. 

So something like...
(do = page level)
do=show, edit, revisions, ... etc

(site = global level)
site=login, admin, recent, ... etc
I would imagine that to simplify this change, a special "virtual page" or something could be created, which is used for any global action command, rather than the current page. But imo, it would be nice to simply have a non wiki page handler which could manage all non wiki content for the various global commands.
I've found it somewhat confusing/frustrating to have the action commands always tied to the current wiki page. I feel that design has led to some poor administrative interfaces for dokuwiki. 

chris

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