[dev] help/options links

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Thu Aug 26 12:54:07 PDT 2004


Quoting Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info>:

> I know, but it seemed more consistent to me to put the whole trio (options,
> problems and online help) under one menu option. Since I have a Giapeto site
> online I would like the same options for Problem (always, 
> authenticated, never) as for Help and Options. I want to show the 
> problem link to
> authenticated users, but I don't want it on my website.

The more I think about it, the more this makes sense to me. Can anyone 
think of
any reason that it really makes sense to keep it a registry entry?

> Showlink is set up in a generic way independent on link type. (Any
> $conf['link']['...'] works. Each link however is set up in a different way.
> Some logic would then have te be added to showLink (showlink then becomes a
> 'gateway' for Help::listLink() and Prefs::listLink() (see below).
> Alternatively, the descision to show or not show could be moved to the
> listLink() methods, but this would result in the same code on 
> multiple places.

Not much of it, just a check on one setting. Help::listLink() already 
does this,
and it seems like a good solution to me.

> A check box for disabling problem reporting reporting per app? I see problem
> reporting not as a module for horde, but part of the framework.

Yeah, forget this.

-chuck

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