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diff --git a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn index 4a83f9ec8..c54376aa1 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn @@ -231,3 +231,44 @@ So, looking at your meta branch: --[[Joey]] >> handling, since po contains a workaround for that, and it's probably >> acceptable to use potentially slow methods to handle this case.) >> --[[Joey]] + +>>> I'm glad to implement whatever decision we'll make, but I don't +>>> clearly understand what this discussion's conclusion is. It seems +>>> like we agree at least on one point: meta page titles shall not be +>>> displayed all over the place by default; I have therefore disabled +>>> `meta_overrides_page_title` by default in my `meta` branch. +>>> +>>> My next question is then: do we only want to satisfy the `po` +>>> plugin needs? Or do we want to allow people who want this, such as +>>> [[madduck]], to turn on a config switch so that meta page titles +>>> are displayed as wikilinks titles? In the latter case, what level +>>> of configurability do we want? I can think of a quite inelegant +>>> way to implement full configurability, and provide a configuration +>>> switch for every place where links are displayed, such as +>>> wikilinks, parentlinks, etc., but I don't think the added bonus is +>>> worth the complexity of it. +>>> +>>> I think we can roughly split the needs into three categories: +>>> +>>> 1. never display any modified page title in links; this is the +>>> current behaviour, and we should keep it as the default one +>>> 2. display modified page titles only at well chosen places; that +>>> could be "manual" wikilinks, I mean those generated by the +>>> `link`, `camelcase` & al. plugins, the recentchanges page, and +>>> maybe a few other places; keep the usual pagename-based title +>>> for every other link, such as the parentlinks ones. +>>> The inter-page dependency problem remains, though. As a first +>>> step, I'm in favour of the "slow, but correct" implementation, +>>> with a big warning stating that enabling this option can make +>>> a wiki really sluggish; if someone really wants this to work +>>> fast, he/she'll implement a clever dependency handler :) +>>> 3. display modified page titles all over the place; IMHO, we +>>> should implement only the bits needed so that the `po` plugin +>>> can set this up, rather than provide this as +>>> a user-configurable option. +>>> +>>> So my question is: do we want to implement the #2 case, or not? +>>> I propose myself to only implement #1 and #3 to start with, but do +>>> it in a way that leaves room for #2. +>>> +>>> --[[intrigeri]] |