Ideas and suggestions for Trac's Wiki

This page collects ideas and suggestions for enhancing the TracWiki and its WikiFormatting (TracLinks, WikiProcessors, WikiMacros, etc.)

If you have a small nice idea but don't feel like starting a discussion on the MailingList or creating a new ticket, this is the place!

Recap of open issues

• There are a 151 open issues in total: #108, #109, #425, #611, #615, #695, #976, #1024, #1120, #1216, #1240, #1242, #1245, #1376, #1386, #1424, #1465, #1513, #1520, #1936, #2064, #2293, #2523, #2656, #2702, #2717, #3021, #3251, #3307, #3335, #3386, #3416, #3794, #3895, #3970, #4022, #4140, #4279, #4412, #4431, #4439, #4468, #4492, #4536, #4695, #4778, #4790, #4848, #5059, #5227, #5498, #5821, #6062, #6623, #6630, #6800, #6824, #6863, #6947, #7361, #7658, #7721, #7990, #8140, #8223, #8499, #8526, #8640, #8645, #8686, #8727, #8735, #8949, #8961, #9037, #9046, #9048, #9055, #9123, #9214, #9216, #9222, #9248, #9251, #9296, #9385, #9526, #9537, #9554, #9574, #9601, #9618, #9619, #9688, #9879, #9897, #9947, #10021, #10032, #10167, #10201, #10312, #10323, #10334, #10350, #10376, #10523, #10539, #10633, #10670, #10734, #10872, #10945, #11078, #11163, #11305, #11323, #11359, #11374, #11522, #11526, #11536, #11641, #11670, #11720, #11731, #11814, #11816, #11937, #11963, #12054, #12214, #12262, #12512, #12567, #12572, #12678, #12733, #12741, #12756, #12780, #12828, #12900, #12928, #12984, #13012, #13187, #13389, #13757, #13768, #13786
• See also existing proposals on AdvancedWikiFormatting, which contain ideas for a lot of small improvements.

WikiFormatting

Improvements for TracLinks

• Auto-labelling: when an explicit label is not given, we use the target for the label; often we just want the last part of the target, which leads to somewhat redundant links like:

  [TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiFormatting AdvancedWikiFormatting]
  [source:trunk/trac/wiki/api.py wiki/api.py]
  

  Often, we could use // as a hint for using only the last part of the target as the label. The above could be rewritten:

  [TracDev/Proposals//AdvancedWikiFormatting] 
  [source:trunk/trac//wiki/api.py]
  

CSS

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User interface guidelines

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Page templates

• Suggest the most appropriate template: if we're asked to create a TracIdeas/XYZ page then the default page template should be PageTemplates/TracIdeas if it exists
• Parameterized page templates: replace certain keywords in the page template. For example when creating TracIdeas/Timeline using the template

  = Ideas and suggestions for Trac's $name
  
  This page collects ideas and suggestions for enhancing $name
  
  [[TicketQuery(status!=closed,keywords~=$name)]]
  
  ----
  See also:
  - TracDev/ScratchPad/$name
  

  you would automatically get:

  = Ideas and suggestions for Trac's Timeline
  
  This page collects ideas and suggestions for enhancing Timeline.
  
  [[TicketQuery(status!=closed,keywords~=Timeline)]]
  
  ----
  See also:
  - TracDev/ScratchPad/Timeline
  

Other glitches

• Update TracIni since v0.11 : add file parameter in [inherit] bloc to include an ini file and say See Global configuration for details. Furthermore, it seems several files can be included adding a file=… line for each one.

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