Philipp committed today the first changes for a multi lingual admin. It's not finished, especially the javascript based stuff is not done yet. Also missing is the auto-detection of the language according to the browser settings.
I'm mainly writing this already now, because if you update your CMS now, you'll get a fatal error in the edit frame after you log in. Just call /admin/webinc/update/ and it will go away (and maybe also delete the files in the tmp/ directory).
You can set your preferred language in your user account in the field "Admin Language", this will override the browser language detection (as soon as it's implemented). Currently german and english are available.
If you'd like to translate the admin to any other language, see http://svn.bitflux.ch/repos/public/bxcmsng/trunk/admin/lang/ (or admin/lang/ in your local installation), copy the german files and start editing. The files are XML based and should be quite self-explanatory. Any contribution is gladly welcome and if you're inclined to maintain a language, we're more than happy to give you SVN access.
We committed the new admin code today in the trunk. Not everything is done, the actual "edit" pages just turned blue. But the login and the overview pages sport now the new design. There are still some little quirks here and there which we will sort out in the next days (additionally to the further refinements).
If you don't have a local copy of the trunk, you can check it out at http://trunkdemo.bitflux.org/ (demo/demo).
Freeflux.net will be updated, as soon as we think the new layout ready :)
The design was done by monorom.com, many thanks to her.
Since a long time we were thinking about how to improve the admin experience... Now the first step has been committed. A so called "overview" page for each collection, resource and the start page. It's not so easy to explain, so see for yourself at http://trunkdemo.bitflux.org/admin/ and login
with demo/demo (If miss-used, I'll shut it down :) ). Click also on some collections and resources on the navi-tree, to see how it's actually supposed to work. Currently it's mainly the context menu remapped to the edit frame, but with much more space for additions.
As the next step will be to redesign (graphically) the whole thing, I'm not interested in hearing what you think about the design (it will change and will be less green ;) ), but I'm really really interested in hearing if you like this approach or if you see further improvements. Or if you would do it completely different.
We also plan to add a Bookmark feature and a LiveSearch option to the top.frame for easy and fast access to the content.
If you'd like you can also check out the new dbforms2 implementation. Choose in the Blog section "Edit Categories/Links" and then something there. Currently only works in Firefox/Mozilla, but IE support is very near (just 2-3 little things are missing).
As we think this addition to the admin is very important (You actually see on first sight after login what you can do and not only after clicking around...), we try to push 1.3 a little bit and try to make a release pretty soon. Even though some other features are not really finished (the metadata search for example). Freeflux.net will then
also be upgraded.
And now, please comment :)
Update: The admin will definitively not look like in the trunkdemo mentioned above. It will be much lighter and more appealing. It's just a proof of concept for the general UI behaviour.
