#83: Visual editor (Kupu) integration

Contents
  1. Motivation
  2. Assumptions
  3. Proposal
  4. Progress log
  5. Participants
by Alexander Limi — last modified Jun 11, 2006 12:21 AM

Kupu needs to be integrated into plone as the default wysiwyg editor.

Proposed by
Danny Bloemendaal
Seconded by
Duncan Booth
Proposal type
User interface, Architecture
State
completed

Motivation

Kupu is the way to go for wysiwyg editing. It's much more flexible and has many good features for editing.

Plone also needs a visual editor as the default, and have STX/reST as optional formats if you know what you are doing. In essence, you get this if you turn off the visual editor - but the default in a fresh site is to have Kupu as the editor.

Assumptions

We are shipping Kupu 1.2.x with Plone 2.1.

Proposal

  1. Remove Epoz and it's dependencies
  2. Ship kupu with Plone (compiled?) and all necessary libraries.
  3. Make kupu the default editor for each user
  4. Make sure the drawers can be edited/customized by mere mortals => zpt.
  5. Have a good set of drawers (LiveSearch-like drawer to insert links).
  6. Make kupu look Plonish

Progress log

Duncan needs to review this and do some of the dirty work. ;)

Paul is merging the drawer changes.

Limi will do some pixel tweaking here when all is done.

Participants

Duncan Booth
Danny Bloemendaal
Paul Everitt
Alexander Limi

kupu i18n...

Posted by Godefroid Chapelle at May 23, 2005 03:18 PM
should be done as well

iow, PloneTranslations should get kupu po files

What about the FCKEditor just announced on Plone web site?

Posted by David Diskin at Jun 05, 2005 03:01 AM
It looks quite good at first glance

Not by default

Posted by Alexander Limi at Jun 05, 2005 12:55 PM
FCKEditor is an interesting editor, but it's not really suitable for CMS deployments. It doesn't make any attempt at cleaning up the HTML that the browsers produce, it has lots of unnecessary options, and is in general not what you want as an editor for a professional CMS deployment.

I agree that it should work if you try to install it, but it's not going to ship with Plone by default.

use also for discussions

Posted by pdsnr at Jun 15, 2005 11:13 AM
I'd appreciate it very much if kupu and/or FCKEditor could also be used for editing comments, e. g. this one.

Strike thru Needed

Posted by Stephen Brown at Jul 17, 2005 11:45 PM
In all of the previous demos that I have seen for this editor, none of them have supported strike thru. This little feature was added to Epoz over night almost eighteen months ago. I wish that it could be added to kupu/plone.

Many of our users will probably continue to choose Epoz because of this.

Please report it to the Kupu people

Posted by Alexander Limi at Jul 18, 2005 12:34 AM
This is not a place to put bug reports or feature suggestions. :)