> 1) I think we need a control panel (a la windows for example). When > the user clicks on the "Administration" link in the top right corner > of the screen it goes to a page with a nice control panel (i.e. nice > icons). This Panel would replace the current Administration view with > tabs. Clicking on a control panel item will go to a special page > about that item.
A control panel a la windows (and many apps & webapps) would be nice, it's by far the most practical choice when applications can add items into the general settings (where tabbed layouts can become a mess). Just to clarify one point : I'm sure everyone agree to keep the core administration within templates, accessible by the admin action. Now it begs the question of the reusability of the wiki administration templates for spaces administration.. 2 options from my POV : 1) Lighten a lot the preferences accessible from UI for spaces (default language, parent, skin settings, default editor. for example) and make their administration really different from the wiki one. 2) Have spaces control panels accessible from the main control panel Obviously my choice goes to 1) :) BTW I guess all this is Future and not 1.2M2, I'll create the design entry for the record. > 2) I think we need everything that's about Admin in this control > panel, including Blogs, Photo Album, etc. > 3) In the future the control panel would offer extension points for > apps to contribute items to it but right now we should hardcode items > for Blogs, Photo Album, etc. It's easy to know which ones to include > since this is inside XE and we control the default apps bundled in XE. > 4) It would be great to get Laurent Lunati's help to design this > control panel. +1. JV. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
