Hi Johan,
Thanks for your suggestions with the plugin. I’d just like to address some of your concerns.
In regards to user permissions, the editor should only be available to users with the ‘create_users’ permission. By default this would of course only apply to admins. If you have altered the permission structure in any way, this would present an issue here. I can’t imagine any other reason it would show up for non-admin installs on your setup but I would be very interested on sorting this out if it is in fact an issue.
The disappearing of the dashboard left panel is a feature inherited from WPide and was never a feature I was ever too fond of – however I can see its value for other users. There is currently a filter to disable it however I am working on a settings menu that will have the option in a simple checkbox.
Back when WPide was under active development, I submitted a large patch containing a filter for changing the root editor path – again, this will become a setting when the settings page is generated. Until then, you can modify the ‘aceide_filesystem_root’ filter to the value of your desired root path to achieve this functionality.
In regards to the UI issue with the find dialog… That’s curious. I’m not 100% sure what exactly you’re saying the issue is but it sounds like some inputs are flowing out of the find dialog and are being hidden? What browser/os are you using? Could you provide a screenshot please?
Opening of files and folders is done over an AJAX request. This means that everything to do with an HTTP request can slow down opening of these directories and files. I notice no real issues here on full WordPress installations. How long is your delay? Is it possible that it is spending a long time on data transit or on processing other places in WordPress? Or that it may be another server-related issue?
A progress bar would definitely be a great feature however (as far as I am aware) there is no actual way to get progress information out of the zipping library. However, I am yet to properly investigate this.
Monokai is an ace theme? I am not familiar with it. I will also be providing an option to change the theme in the settings page.
I look forward to hearing back from you on these points.
Kind Regards,
Shane