Quote from: rthrash at Dec 22, 2010, 10:10 PM
Quote from: lowelife at Dec 22, 2010, 10:03 PM
This makes me want to go back to Evolution.
Are there plans to port this to Revo?
What specifically makes you want to go back to Evo? Revo doesn’t use MCPuck at all ... do you miss the pain?
And no, we’ll never port MCPuck to Revo. But we will continue to improve the media manager in Revo.
Good God man, I don’t want MCPuck ported! I was talking about KCFinder! I just like that there are folks like Yama doing great stuff with things like KCFinder.
I’m just in the beginning of my Revolution Experience, and I am very impressed, but I am also extremely overwhelmed. I came to modx back in 2007 after horrible experiences with Drupal and loved how seamless it felt with things like whatever the original version of quickedit was, and the way it seemed built to be easier for content managers to do their thing.
I’m a very low-tech tech. I know enough to be dangerous. But I help people who know even less than me maintain sites. These are people that don’t understand that when they put an image in a web page, they’re just linking to a file, so they upload 1024x863 images and use TinyMCE to change their size to something pretty.
With Evolution, as terrible as MCPuck was, I could explain to my clients how to resize an image. With Revolution, I got nothing yet. I’m not being impatient, it’s just that the features that my clients care about are not the ones that get released first in a ’core’. Core releases are for developers and integrators. I desperately want to use Revolution. I’ve started my first revo site and it’s gone well, but I, and my clients, miss things like the quick editor, and being able to resize or crop images.
Like all young open source products, ModX is still finding its feet. I think it’s great, and I know it will get even better, but like consumers of any product, open source or otherwise, I want more, always more. And I also desperately want Revo to NOT be a geekfest product. It needs to be understandable and accessible to semi-tech people who can install it and start managing their content right away, like Wordpress. The mess in the middle needs to be hidden away. That’s why when I see posts on the forums about how you’ve left everything in Revo open and extensible I worry, because a stove is only useful if I have a pot and a recipe book.
I am in the process of documenting for my clients how to maintain their very simple ModX Revo site. That documentation will be turned over to the community to examine, tweak, and hopefully improve upon. I have a background as a tech writer, so I guess it’s about time I got tech writing and put my oar in.
This is the wrong place for this soapbox, but it’s close to Christmas and I’ve had too much wine.