Hello, I first want to say that XOOPS is simply the best CMS/Portal System I have used, but I've run into a couple of ideas to improve Xoops, and they may very well already be in the process of being implemented, or already exist in a module, so I apologize if that is the case on some of this stuff. I'm not a programmer, so I can't provide any help with coding, but I am a graphic designer, so I can help with theming or graphics.

WYSIWYG Integration:
It would really be nice if a WYSIWYG editor was built into all textareas, especially blocks. I know there is a way to hack this in with kiovi, but I'd like to have other options, like fckeditor, which seems to have more features and has a great image manager additional plugin, called ibrowser, that can be set up to share images with all modules using fckeditor or the built in XOOPS image manager. There realy needs to be a way to easily upload images and other files into a WYSIWYG interface globally anywhere in the site. Similar to how the Content module works.

Improved Admin Layout:
It would be nice if the open space on the admin control panel page could be use to display the module icons and short descriptions for them and have the pop up menus there. Having the pop-up menus on the left and not having an obvious description of the module is confusing for most clients we've worked with. The modules could fit in 3 or 4 columns across. It would be cool if the author's description could be edited as well, so you can leave notes for yourself or other admin users. It also may be nice to show site statistics there like hits, broken links submitted or other content notifications, or any errors - similar to Drupal or Mambo.

Improved Theming
The ability to create multiple themes for blocks or pages that can be applied to any block or page(not just entire modules like the theme switching modules out there seem to do). I think something like this is already being discussed, but I'm not sure. There also needs to be a way to assign themes to different groups like this module provides:
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=47275&forum=15

But there also needs to be a way to determine the startpage module for different groups as well - sometimes blocks alone are not enough.

Clean URLS
There has got to be an easy way to make your home url be http://www.domain.com, not http://www.domain.com/modules/news/. And overall cleaner URLs using mod rewrite would be nice for improved SEO. Again, I know this can be hacked in, but it ought to be an easy "turn on" feature in the admin preferences.

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Take a look @ How to Enable Koivi Wysiwyg Editor in XOOPS 2.2.2

there's a way to do so @ the end of the thread, also for the Great and much recommended Inbetween Wysiwyg .... which is based on TinyMce ... also with iBrowser plugin

Ahh, I'll check that out. Thanks!

tzvook,

I checked out the comments thread you posted and I can't find "function b_system_custom_edit" or anything quite like it in system_blocks.php in XOOPS 2.0.13.2. Do you mind taking a look at it and see where it moved to? I'm trying to implement your Inbetween hack for textareas, blocks, etc.

Thanks!

Another nice ability would be to be able to assign different block locations to different groups.

For admin part, you can try adminarea revisited. I'm not shure it is still in development (it may not work with newer versions, so play with it on test install !!!) and the project on dev.xoops.org is closed, but it was something diferent from the XOOPS admin.
There is also another project (vitaminC I think) for new look in admin part of xoops.