X3 Preview Thread

[Caleb06]

I'm not sure if anyone else has it yet, but I recently bought a new cPanel server from a provider and I guess it came with the X3 skin or something because it's definitely on there. However, the middle section with all the buttons does not show up and there is a directive error on the left side. Does anyone else have this problem and when will it be fixed? Here is a screenshot I attached..


Thanks,
-Caleb

 

[sjoerd83]

I`ts avaible on the latest edge, but a "edge" means buggy as you can see

 

[carluk]

Very nice improvement.
Cant wait to test the Web Disk Accounts myself.

 

[Caleb06]

I'm using 10.9.0-C94 meaning I'm on the current tree, not EDGE. Hmmm....

 

[CompufixHosting]

It looks like it is in the current build now, but does not work.

 

[dwykofka]

Caleb,

This happens when you switch to Edge then switch back to stable.

 

[cPanelNick]

You must be running an 11.x build for it to work. As of right now, the only tree that is has a newer version in NIGHTLY, and thats a month old. Final QA should be done on tuesday, then it will me updated in NIGHTLY, and that it will follow cPanel 11's release cycle.

 

[carluk]

Any chance http://changelog.cpanel.net/ could get updated with recent changes.
Also any information on the cpanel 10 to cpanel 11 changes and bug fixes etc?

 

[rachweb]

Any chance http://changelog.cpanel.net/ could get updated with recent changes.
Also any information on the cpanel 10 to cpanel 11 changes and bug fixes etc?

The difference between cpanel 10 and 11 is that cpanel 11 has apache 2 and the new theme.

 

[cPanelNick]

Any chance http://changelog.cpanel.net/ could get updated with recent changes.
Also any information on the cpanel 10 to cpanel 11 changes and bug fixes etc?

It doesn't get updated until a current build is built with the cPanel 11 changes.

 

[interestingloss]

not showing fantastico

I am using the EDGE version, but it does not allow for Fantastico and the label where it shows the domain is not centered right and is missing part of it...


looks nice though

CH

 

[katmai]

fantastico can be worked out with the x3 theme, yet, i thought edge is pretty unstable. and the new easyapache has a lot of options, which honestly i don't know what they mean, and would be nice if cpanel made some documentation for them.

used edge for like 2 weeks, then rolled back to current

 

[carluk]

Indeed, but there is a current 94 but only changelog for 75.

 

[Spiral]

fantastico can be worked out with the x3 theme, yet, i thought edge is pretty unstable. and the new easyapache has a lot of options, which honestly i don't know what they mean, and would be nice if cpanel made some documentation for them.

used edge for like 2 weeks, then rolled back to current

Each to their own I suppose ...

I have EDGE running smooth as silk with no errors or bugs to speak of .....

Cpanel 11, Apache 2.0.59, PHP 5.2.0 .....

Incidentally, Fantastico works fine on the new X3 theme!

EasyApache is pretty brain dead easy as far as the options go but if you want to know
the purpose of any specific option, I can probably explain it to you.

 

[DaveUsedToWorkHere]

Note to cPanel, it irritates me to no end that I should have to manually hack in a standard 3rd-party add-on into the GUI. That is just ridiculous. You've made all this faldera about coming up with standards and how add-ons are supposed to work by your so-called framework, then you go and change the framework regularly without telling anybody, leaving developers (who SUPPORT your business through what they do) to fiddle and flounder their way through unexpected errors. NOW you have coded a skin that isn't even add-on aware? From what I saw?

These companies are PROMOTING cPanel by making cool add-ons. The more a control panel can do, the more attractive it is to buyers. When you make life difficult for the 3rd party developers by changing standards mid-stream, it only hurts everyone's businesses at all levels -- yours, mine, the developers, even our end-users who would like to use the 3rd-party things which are now broken. I have less features/benefits to sell. I have clients who feel let down. Well I'm not in the business of letting people down, and this sucks.

And that's my 4¢ worth. (It'd be 2¢ but it turns out a single penny is actually worth 2¢ if you melt it down)

:D Bailey

We have posted earlier in this thread on how to add addon icons to cPanel:

Heres how to do this:

# pwd
/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x3/cells
# ls -l | grep ^d
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 advanced
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:48 db
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 domains
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 files
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 logs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 mail
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 pref
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 sec
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 6 07:41 software
# echo '<div class="item">
> <a href="/3rdparty/MyAddon/index.php" target="_blank"><img alt="<cpanel langprint="IconFor">" border="0" src="<cpanel Branding="image(MyAddon)">" id="branding-img-MyAddon"></a><br />
> <a href="/3rdparty/MyAddon/index.php" target="_blank"><cpanel langprint="MyAddon"></a>
> </div>' > software/myapp.html


This information will allow third party developers to accommodate the new system. We are not attempting to make it difficult or not inform them. Any third party developers are welcome to contact us for information.

 

[interestingloss]

Incidentally, Fantastico works fine on the new X3 theme!

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The fantastio icon does not show for us on the system X3 Template. I dont really have any major issues with EDGE either.

 

[NT]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Fantastico be the ones responsible for making sure their software plugged into the various cPanel themes?

If so, perhaps they haven't done this yet because X3 is not yet released.

 

[cPanelNick]

The point is that cPanel is making work for people by changing their product mid-stream. The current system works fine. Now all of a sudden we have a new system which does not follow current standards and in which existing third-party products don't appear.

Not only that, but the new x3 also does not appear to be feature-aware. I have just uploaded it to one of my servers to see if it was remotely usable and here it is showing things we have totally disabled server-wide ... like Analog. Awstats is installed & running, but nowhere to be found on x3. The "select your stats program" page does not work, although the server is set up so that it should work.

So, cPanel's new theme is still heinously broken. (Remember, it was supposed to have finished QOS 48 hours ago)

On top of that, now developers of 3rd-party products like RVSkin have come to a stand-still because they must re-code everything from the ground-up, because cPanel has decided to totally redo their entire system. So cPanel has effectively crippled ongoing development of products that support their enterprise by breaking something that was already fixed. :p

To hell with standards kids, why stick with the "same old" when it is much more fun to screw everything up and create work for everybody??? Again -- customer un-friendly.

:D Bailey

X3 in EDGE is very old and very far from complete. Please save your comments until it reaches one of the production builds as you'll find that everything you have commented on above has long since been addressed, and will be apparent when X3 has its official release next year.

 

[rs-freddo]

Perhaps it would be best if it were hidden only if the default address is set to :fail: or :blackhole: or /dev/null


Thoughts?

I found the answer to this question!!!! The main email box should only be hidden if "username: :fail:" is found in /etc/aliases. It should not be hidden when default address is set to :fail: because the main box can still receive email. Only when the main box cannot receive emails should the main box be hidden. It is also quite safe to also hide the main webmail links too as the main box cannot receive emails and will always be empty.

It would be nice if we had an option to check to make cPanel add "username: :fail:" to /etc/aliases on account creation.

FYI spammers are starting to realise they can send mail to [email protected] and there is nothing cpanel users can do to stop them. Even if the mail isn't read it does use up space on the server.

 

[cPanelNick]

I found the answer to this question!!!! The main email box should only be hidden if "username: :fail:" is found in /etc/aliases. It should not be hidden when default address is set to :fail: because the main box can still receive email. Only when the main box cannot receive emails should the main box be hidden. It is also quite safe to also hide the main webmail links too as the main box cannot receive emails and will always be empty.

It would be nice if we had an option to check to make cPanel add "username: :fail:" to /etc/aliases on account creation.

FYI spammers are starting to realise they can send mail to [email protected] and there is nothing cpanel users can do to stop them. Even if the mail isn't read it does use up space on the server.

This has already been addressed as well.