[dokuwiki] Re: Reject template if plugin does not exist?
- From: "Terence J. Grant" <tjgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:07:34 -0500
Hi Håkan,
The template is monobook, the plugin is displaywikipage.
> I'm not found of plugins/templates that require me to install another
> software. To make administration easy (an important feature in DokuWiki) I
> prefer an all-inclusive download/installation.
Hmm well see you can't currently bundle templates and plugins
together, and I'm not sure that's the direction I want to go with
anyway; I like the modularity of the separation.
> Is the plugin really required?
My opinion: in theory, "no," in reality, "yes."
A good majority of the users either forget to install the plugin or
are not reading the instructions and are confused why the
functionality is missing.
I've been wondering for a while now how I would go about closing that
loop and fix that problem.
Two things I can think of:
1. Javascript:alert("Hey, you forgot to install...");
* Too annoying, intrusive, invasive, etc, and just wrong.
2. Insert something into the message area
* Don't think this is possible once template processing starts though.
So I'm stumped, and I'm open to ideas w.r.t. "alerting the user."
Perhaps that gives a better indication of what I'm looking at.
Thanks,
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