[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 428 Hide delete button in multivalued widget if attr is not writable

James purpleidea at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 20:24:48 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 17:59 +0200, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Note: the button is actually in a form of a link
I didn't notice this before.
Sorry for the noise.

James

> 
> The approach you're proposing is often valid and a preferred one but
> I 
> don't think it's the best approach for our case.
> 
> Web UI uses a pattern where textboxes are changed to simple text when 
> user doesn't have write rights. This transformation pretty much says: 
> "no you can't do anything with this attribute". This pattern is all 
> around the UI since textbox is the most common widget.
> 
> Multivalued widget internally uses textboxes and so that
> transformation. 
> It also already hides the 'add' button (link). IMO leaving 'delete' 
> buttons next to the text values just clutters the UI.

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