UI element visible on read-only pads

[thmo]

The drop-down to change the color of selected text is visible also for read-only pads. Using it temporarily changes the color of the selected text in the current browser window. The original pad is not changed however ([WARN] message - Dropped message, COLLABROOM for readonly pad), and the change vanishes after reloading the page.

Sometimes however the read-only pad looses the connection to the server when using the drop down.

[JohnMcLear]

Yea I'm yet to discover a good practice for which plugins should/shouldn't show on read only pages. @orblivion and @seballot did you have a thought on this? Something like a class that hides it on read only pages perhaps? I know we have the settings.json blob but I don't wanna be messing with that...

How about class='buttonicon-editor-only' ?

[thmo]

I would expect that ep_font_color, ep_font_family and ep_align all work the same way in that regards, similar to ep_font_size.

[JohnMcLear]

They should, do they not?

[seballot]

why not just hiding the whole left-toolbar in real-only mode? (I never used this mode, not sure what is the goal)

[JohnMcLear]

There has been cases where read only plugins get placed on left side of the toolbar so e can't do that.

[Oremountainflorian]

They should, do they not?

At least ep_font_color and ep_align don't hide.

[thmo]

See also ether/ep_align#16.

[JohnMcLear]

Ack will deal with it if I can

[JohnMcLear]

@seballot before I hack something do you have a preference on how I do this?

[seballot]

your idea of having a class that will be hidden seems good to me

[JohnMcLear]

@seballot how is ep_headings2 not included in read only pad view?

[JohnMcLear]

@seballot I'm just thinking and you might be right, we might be suitable just to say "Anything that's put in the toolbar left can just be hidden" - I reviewed a load of plugins and it seems fine to do so.. the exception being ep_comments which one might want to allow comments on a page...

[thmo]

@seballot how is ep_headings2 not included in read only pad view?

From peeking and poking around in the inspector, I would think the acl-write class has this purpose?

[JohnMcLear]

@thmo thanks for doing my homework for me :D Awesome, so I think I will just include this in those plugins.

[JohnMcLear]

Wait, @seballot the bug is coming from font_color.css which isn't comin gfrom my plugin! It's coming from the colibris skin :P

It's due to

#font-color {
  display: list-item !important;
}

This is why I reallllly don't like plugin code in core ;\

[seballot]

ah ah sorry, it was because I dont really like this double action things : first click the "A" button, the select appear, then click the select, the list of color appears
So out of laziness I made the select always visible and hide the "A" button, instead of changing the plugin itself

I'm a bit tired of managing all those plugins. I think the plugin system is very nice to add custom functionalities or heavy functionalities (like ep_webrtc), but for all basic actions like changing text size, text color, align text etc... should IHMO definitely be part of etherdpad core. it would be much more easy to have a clean and nice toolbar (it will still be possible to activate/deactivate some feature of the toolbar), and also it will be less time consuming

[JohnMcLear]

Yeah agreed. Let's fix these last ones up. Fwiw with do webrtc we are setting best practices so most of this functionality can be provided by plugin helpers.

[JohnMcLear]

@seballot you on with fixing this up?

[seballot]

how do I activate the read only mode? so I can test it?

[JohnMcLear]

Click the embed button (in toolbar), click the read only switch, get the read only URL, visit it :)

https://video.etherpad.com/p/r.b9c133871647a4d8b5d0c1ce5599fbf9

Is an example

[seballot]

thanks ! fixed here ether/etherpad-lite#4017