sidebar for toolbar buttons + widgets/plugins

A sidebar that can contain toolbar buttons and/or plugins/widgets, see ticket.
E.g. for often used toolbar buttons. Giving them a bigger button in a sidebar will ease the use of them. Or for often used plugins or plugins that want to display a little bit more, e.g. a clock that onclick displays a date picker.

Example: Opera.

See ticket.

See the 'Usability guidelines on UI Elements'.

Wed, 02/06/2008 - 13:22

fredck

Joined: 19/01/2007

Posts: 898

Re: sidebar for toolbar buttons + widgets/plugins

I'm not sure this is something to be delivered with the core, as we'll much probably keep things simple there.

But, the nice thing is that V3 will make FCKeditor much more plugin aware, and extensible. So, it would be easy to come with a plugin that enhances FCKeditor by adding the sidebar, and then other plugins that use the sidebar for several different needs.

If you will be interested on working on that, we can certainly exchange our results right from the start of the developments of V3, so the plugin will be ready and available at our plugins repository right from the first official release.

Frederico Knabben
CKEditor Project Lead and CKSource Owner
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