[TYPO3-dev] ext manager

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Am 28.02.2011 16:15, schrieb Robert Wildling:
> I am confused and have to ask for help to clarify how to understand the
> new ext manager:
>
> When the T3 installation is clean, the ext manager shows many
> possibilites, among them the 3 old menu entries "installed ext",
> "install ext" and "import ext".
>
> When using the new ext manager, after a while, the menu entries from the
> drop down lost for the old ext manager disappear.
>
> - Is this behaviour intended?
> - If so, is there any way to change back to the old ext manager entries
> later on?
>

no - it's not losing entries. In ext conf of em you can switch off old 
modules.

>
> I also realize that when I copy&paste ext from another local T3
> installation, the ext managers (old and new) just won't recognize them.
> The rights and chmods are set correctly though.
>
> (I am on a Mac 10.6.6, MAMP Pro 1.9.4, Firefox 3.6.13 (but similiar in
> latest Chrome and Opera), Typo3 4.5.2)
>

don't ever expirienced this.

>
> Steffen - last time you said you made the changes, but you meant the
> filter features for TER ext, didn't you? The field to show the date of
> the latest update is not yet integrated, or am I missing sth? How about
> the bug report? The one you entered,
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=17788, addresses another topic, not mine.
>

i fixed the sql error with filtering, not the extra field for the list. 
I said that this is a different issue, please open a BT entry.


> I mean that there are columns for "Erweiterung", "Schlüssel",
> "Kategorie" etc - and that there should be a column that shows the "last
> update" of the respective ext. It was requested quite often! And it
> really is such a valueable info that it shouldn't be hidden in the
> description. (It is quite a waste of time to click through all the ext
> and check their date)
>

see above.

>
> Furthermore: when updateing an ext, that won't work. The procedure is
> initialising the prozess and downloading the updated ext, but when going
> back to the list view, nothing changed.
>

  can't confirm this behaviour. The update icon in rep list is hidden 
after successful update.

> Another thing: I updated the list of ext with the button (that is shown
> in the above mentioned bug report). Since it every once in a while gets
> stuck, I have to remove the ext XML from the temp folder and repeat the
> procedure. T3 4.5 doesrepeat the procedure, it will also show how many
> ext there are in the TER, but when I then search for eg powermail,
> nothing is found!
>

what? i find each ext i search for, no problems.


>
> I am pretty desperate about this whole new AJAX stuff in T3. Instead of
> making the CMS faster, everything just gets slower and slower and more
> and more unstable. The search for errors gets even more difficult... I
> dont know if T3 is really going into the right direction... (It also
> should always grow that musch in file size... should ExtJS and the new
> sprite feature make everything smaller and faster? Why is it not
> happening???)
>
>

that's not true. Especially the extmanager is slow, you can compare a 
complete module load in old module to the new ext manager, it's much 
much faster!


> I really respect your work, guys, but please don't forget usability!
>

everything is done with cooperation of the HCI team. If you find an 
issue which is not that usable, please do as usual and file a bug.

vg Steffen