[Koha-devel] Koha, jump

[Julian Maurice]

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for the screencast, I really had no idea of what you were 
talking about before watching it :)

I think it's a great idea. I use something similar [1] to launch 
programs and navigate between my open windows and it's really useful.

Quick thoughts:
- Jumping around with only a few keystrokes will surely be useful but 
I'm less sure about the creation part (wouldn't it be easier to jump to 
the creation page, and then fill the form ?)
- This is something that would benefit from being extendable by other 
plugins (add other jump locations, add other actions, ...). It might 
prevent the main plugin to become too complex.
- "go" is faster to type than "jump" ;)
- A "set/get" action for sysprefs would be really useful
- It looks like it's designed to act on/jump to DB entries, would it be 
easy to add a static list to jump to (like the list of tools, or the 
list of administration pages) ?
- fuzzy matching can be convenient if the number of available actions 
starts to grow

Be sure I'll try the plugin whenever I find the time ;)

[1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

Le 27/12/2019 à 13:59, Jonathan Druart a écrit :
> Hi devs,
> 
> I have been spending some hours on a plugin lately. The plan was to
> understand a bit the new capabilities that were added recently.
> Also I wanted to quickly implement an idea I had few weeks ago.
> So far everything is dirty, but I wanted to share it as soon as I had
> something that was more or less working.
> 
> The plugin is named "koha-plugin-jump" and is available on my gitlab repository.
>  From the README:
> """
> It started with a simple idea then it got complex, as always. So far
> the UI, the design and the code are ugly.
> The first idea was to add a simple method to jump from one page to
> another, then came the idea to generate data on demand, then data that
> matches given conditions, then etc.
> What's possible so far:
>   * Jump to the following entities: biblio, item, itemtype, libraries,
> list (shelves)
>   * Create one of those entities, with or without attributes of your choices
> Example:
>   * jump biblio The art of will display the list of bibliographic
> records matching "The art of" in their title, when selected you will
> be redirected to the selected record
>   * create item will create a new item
>   * create 10 item biblionumber=20 will create 10 items attached to the
> bibliographic record with the biblionnumber=20
> """
> 
> I cannot continue to develop alone this plugin so I would love to get
> some help on it, if you think it could be helpful to you as well.
> 
> To install it you will have to generate the kpz file (not released
> using the gitlab workflow yet):
> % git clone https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump
> % cd koha-plugin-jump
> % zip -r koha-plugin-jump.kpz Koha
> Then install the kpz using the Koha plugin tool page.
> 
> Also if you want pretty data to be generated you should use patches
> from bug 24310 (do not forget to install libtext-lorem-perl)
> 
> If you are lazy to try it, you can have a look at this screencast:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G01pr8IZH2m5W7_bxEibfi3MyzXAZF-5 (I
> have no idea why this stuff rendered so dark!)
> 
> Enjoy end 2019 ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
> 
> https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump
> https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump/blob/master/README.md
> https://gitlab.com/joubu/koha-plugin-jump/blob/master/TODO
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-- 
Julian Maurice
BibLibre