Amélioration de l'ergonomie des paramètres des plugins

Hi guys,
you might struggle with the same issue as I do:

We’ve installed various plugins with a lot of settings at admin panel. Discourse settings are pretty well grouped by their kind. Plugins not. We can’t say which option belongs to which plugin. I’d like to suggest a little improvement…

Is it possible to expand / collapse plugin specific options like the details view? (collapsed by default)

Some other ideas:

  • altering background color (white / gray / white / …)
  • a thin line between each plugin settings group

In addition to this, I’d like to have some basic information about the plugin on top of each group (1-2 sentences description), latest version and the installed one (date and build version), a link to the offical support site and a link to the plugin author’s site, and if available a shortcut to the docker manager to install updates.

Any thoughts on this?

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When you go to /admin/plugins and click on the settings button of a specific plugin, it will filter only the settings for the one you selected.

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This is not working e.g. with unofficial plugins like events and locations.

When you click on the settings link for a plugin, it works by filtering the settings based on the plugin name. For example, if you click on the settings for discourse-solved, it will bring you to this URL:

http://forum.example.com/admin/site_settings/category/plugins?filter=solved

This means that any of a plugins settings that cannot be found through that filter will not be displayed. With the discourse-solved plugin, the setting for accept_all_solutions_trust_level is not displayed when you click on the Settings button.

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We could probably use a better and more structured solution here @sam.

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For starters though we should be more consistent about naming in our plugin site settings. I agree a better structure makes sense here, we can associate the plugin settings with the particular plugin and then always be able to find them regardless of naming.

I really like the idea of allowing you to expand plugin settings directly near the plugin, somewhat similar to how theme settings work.

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fAs I understand it, I know of two approaches. One is for a plugin to have its own settings menu under Settings. For a plugins settings to be shown from the Plugins page the settings need to follow the convention of setting names being prefixed with the plugins name.

For example, the setting name for the data explorer plugin begins with “data_explorer_” if it was not so it would not be found from the Plugins page.

I’m guessing the settings are being searched for setting names that begin with the same string as the plugin name. I’m also guessing it would be easiest to make this behavior known to plugin authors and put the onus on them to follow the convention.

Ce bouton de paramètres/filtre est-il censé être disponible pour chaque plugin ? Je n’en ai qu’un seul répertorié ici (il y en a quelques-uns préinstallés par défaut et leurs paramètres sont listés avec ceux de ce plugin, tous dans /admin/site_settings/category/plugins. Il n’y a pas de distinction/séparation claire, ce que j’ai trouvé très étrange.

La seule interaction possible pour la section /admin/plugins sur l’image est de cliquer sur le lien du plugin, ce qui m’emmène vers le dépôt GitHub du plugin. Je m’inquiète simplement de la façon dont cela peut devenir désordonné et peu organisé à mesure que davantage de plugins sont ajoutés par les administrateurs de la communauté.

Bien que je n’aie pas de bouton de lien de paramètres dans mon cas, en me basant sur l’exemple d’URL fourni par @simon, je peux utiliser openid pour filtrer les résultats. Cependant, ce n’est pas le nom complet du plugin, et si un autre plugin avait « openid », cela ne fonctionnerait peut-être pas ? (openid-connect fait passer les résultats de 9 à 1, et openid avait également 2 résultats dans les paramètres de connexion qui n’étaient pas liés).

MODIFICATION : openid_connect est la valeur correcte. Je pense que le filtrage se base sur ces clés de configuration.