XenForo 2.0 Discussion

[Chris D]

At the moment, there are only widget positions configured for the places where we add sidebar blocks by default. Sidebars are always on the right, unless you style them differently. There's a slightly different concept for left hand side navigation (think account pages and help pages), though none of these contain widget positions. No, you can't add forums in the sidebar. The forum list is mostly similar to XF1, it isn't a widget. For the most part, the only widgets, currently, are those that currently have sidebar blocks in XF (e.g. forum status, members online etc).

 

[Neutral Singh]

hmmm... so it keeps the style creators in business...

 

[Alpha1]

hmmm... so it keeps the style creators in business...

It was said that XF2 would aim for feature parity, while XF2.1 would take it a step further. I see the same logic in the limited implementation of the navigation manager and widget system.

Based upon the information provided by Mike & Chris here I have added related suggestions. If you want this then you can vote for it here:

XF2 - Make all Page-Elements Widgets: give us complete layout freedom
XF2 - Navigation Menu Manager for Footer, Mod bar, Addon Navigation, etc
XF2 - Multiple Widgets per Row & Tabbed Widgets
XF2 - Drag n Drop widgets

 

[Alpha1]

hmmm... so it keeps the style creators in business...

A more advanced widget system would give style creators much more opportunities to create appealing styles.

 

[Ernest L. Defoe]

A more advanced widget system would give style creators much more opportunities to create appealing styles.

I totally agree. People can really make their sites unique and really stand out.

 

[Digital Doctor]

It was said that XF2 would aim for feature parity, while XF2.1 would take it a step further. I see the same logic in the limited implementation of the navigation manager and widget system.

Based upon the information provided by Mike & Chris here I have added related suggestions. If you want this then you can vote for it here:

XF2 - Make all Page-Elements Widgets: give us complete layout freedom
XF2 - Navigation Menu Manager for Footer, Mod bar, Addon Navigation, etc
XF2 - Multiple Widgets per Row & Tabbed Widgets
XF2 - Drag n Drop widgets

It's kinda late for suggestions ! 2 years into the process !

 

[Alpha1]

I don't think it is late to post suggestions, just after the very first XF2 preview screenshots are posted. Especially since these suggestions build upon the features currently in XF2 Alpha and could make it into XF 2.0 XF2.1 or a later release.

It's also sometimes difficult to separate what is truly crucial functionality compared with features which are more of a nice to have. I'd personally put front end positioning of widgets in that latter category. That said, posting suggestions (as you have done) is useful to help us ascertain that.

 

[masterking]

Nice very good done .

The Syntax seems to pretty similiar to XF1.

@Mike

Can you show us the files structure.

Last but not least.

Did you implemented composer autoloader ? It's just great to have

I wish you and your team much success for XF2 and make a good use of interfaces.

 

[Mike]

The file structure is similar on the whole.

We do use composer and the autoloader from it, yes. (We're not supporting you calling composer directly though. You might be able to manipulate the autoloader if you need to add additional things to it though.)

 

[jmurrayhead]

We've just posted an official development update, including a few screenshots: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-2-0-development-updates.113262/#post-1088612

This updated style almost makes me want to start my sites up again and play around. Almost. Carry on.

 

[Alpha1]

I am most interested in what the new content (find-new) functionality looks like.
My find-new page has 15 tabs and the newsfeed in xf1 leaves much to be desired.
I wonder if XF2 will offer any solution for improved content discovery.

 

[Jake B.]

I notice conditionals are now

xf:if

instead of

xen:if

Any chance xen:if could be an alias to xf:if? otherwise it'll probably drive me mad

 

[Mike]

The short answer there is no. Only the "xf" namespace means anything to the compiler.

 

[CyberAP]

Are you using flexboxes/grid anywhere for layout?

 

[Steve F]

Assuming Tooltips are still being used in XF 2.0 is the functionality basically the same as XF 1.0 or will it be mobile (touch) friendly?

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/tooltip-improvements.105039/

 

[Mike]

Are you using flexboxes/grid anywhere for layout?

We are using flex box in a few places, though we haven't built the layout to depend on it as we do still consider older browsers that don't support it (or only support the old spec) as "acceptable display" targets. It's more an enhancement in certain situations.

Assuming Tooltips are still being used in XF 2.0 is the functionality basically the same as XF 1.0 or will it be mobile (touch) friendly?

The default is hover and, in most contexts, I think that's correct (as clicking would do something). That said, the default is also triggered on focus for keyboard nav which may be sufficient, though I'd have to do some specific testing. You can also set clicks to toggle the tooltip.

 

[Sadiq6210]

It's not limited to two levels, no:

View attachment 139013

This covers the majority of use cases and represents a significant improvement over what we have now.

This is really cool.

However, about the screenshots, I feel the theme needs some touches

 

[Sim]

The file structure is similar on the whole.

We do use composer and the autoloader from it, yes. (We're not supporting you calling composer directly though. You might be able to manipulate the autoloader if you need to add additional things to it though.)

Any chance you've managed to make addons self-contained and include-able via composer rather than needing to manually import an xml file after deploying files to multiple locations? Would be awesome to be able to host addons on packagist.

Failing that - I would at least like to see all assets for an addon deployed to a single folder so that we can use auto-deployment tools, and if there's still an xml definition file, a command line interface to deploy them so this can be automated as well.

 

[Naz]

Failing that - I would at least like to see all assets for an addon deployed to a single folder so that we can use auto-deployment tools, and if there's still an xml definition file, a command line interface to deploy them so this can be automated as well.

This would also be incredibly useful for those of us who keep our add-ons version controlled.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Any chance you've managed to make addons self-contained and include-able via composer rather than needing to manually import an xml file after deploying files to multiple locations? Would be awesome to be able to host addons on packagist.
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Sounds like a great suggestion