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--- mantisbt:plugins_feedback [2007/11/07 10:13] – jreese
+++ mantisbt:plugins_feedback [2014/02/27 03:05] (current) – Bascy
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 ====== Plugin Feedback and Questions ======
+===== General Suggestions =====
+After reading the documentation, and the code, I'd suggest that plugins SHOULD actually be utilized for user replacable functionality.  A prime example for this would be a login event.  Authentication plugins could then react to a login event, and return if a user is authorized for something.  This would also potentially allow for multiple authentication mechanisms, such as a Mantis specific administrator, but also single signon authentication with, say, an ldap source.
 ===== IRC Chats =====
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 <vboctor_> 1. A lot of companies replace the Mantis Logo in the header
 with their own branding, are we going to support this via plugins?
+<jreese> As it is right now, the Mantis Logo is hardcoded to display,
+unless the user has set $g_top_include_page in their configuration.
+As plugins are meant to *add* features and content, rather than modify
+the existing functionality, I don't feel this applies well in its
+current form.
 <vboctor_> 2. I think that page header should be the first thing in the
-page, event before the logo etc.  This is important to allow integrating
+page, event [even? -jr] before the logo etc.  This is important to allow
-Mantis into websites and CMS.
+integrating Mantis into websites and CMS.
+<jrees> Well, if we keep it as it currently is, the user can simply set
+up $g_top_include_page and $g_bottom_include_page, to handle integration
+rather than trying to make this happen in plugins.
 <vboctor_> 3. In case of integrating Mantis in websites / CMS we want to
 avoid generating our own HEAD/BODY etc, right?
+<jreese> This depends, there are parts of Mantis that need to output
+resource links in the <head> tag, like CSS and Javascript, but to have
+Mantis integrated into other applications (not vice versa a la Dokuwiki)
+we could have the <head> section only output if $g_top_include_page isn't
+set.
 <vboctor_> 4. What about the string display chaining event?
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 * To be answered shortly.