449866 - Redesign rights page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: Verbatim, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Schafer [:dschafer]]

Right now, the set-rights page is rather bulky, and will be even more so in situations with a lot of users; having all of the users in one form is awkward, and makes things difficult on the server side as well.

I would suggest having a <select> listing all the users (plus "default" and "nobody"), and a <fieldset> below that containing the 10 rights as check-boxes.  The status of these check-boxes would dynamically update when the user selected in the <select> changes.  Below that, we could have "Update", "Reset" and "Delete" buttons.  This would make the interface smaller, cleaner, and easier on the server side, since the POSTed information would just be a user-name and a list of rights, rather than the cross product of users/rights for all users.

The basic structure would thus be:
<form>
  <select>
    <option /> * {all users}
  </select>
  <fieldset>
    <checkboxes /> * {all rights}
  </fieldset>
  <button value="Update" />
  <button value="Delete" />
  <button value="Reset" />
</form>

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Closing out Pootle bugs from Verbatim component:

We're running Pootle trunk, and it's not a feature to be implemented on our end, but this might already be fixed.