Vincent Massol wrote: > On May 20, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Evelina Slatineanu wrote: > >> One proposal is to make the panels part of XE (not application >> anymore, >> since they have dependencies in XE) and move the PanelWizard in the >> Administration application (since this one will contain PanelWizard >> for both >> wiki and space level, so there is no point for the PanelWizard to >> exist >> outside administration). WDYT? > > I'm not sure. I'd prefer we go the opposite way. There's nothing IMO > that forces us to make Panels compulsory and I'd rather see it as an > application. Right now there are dependencies in Core/XE because we > don't have IX but that should go away later on. > > More generally speaking I'd really like that Core/XE is an empty shell > in the future, i.e. completely empty and that XWiki instances are > built by adding applications. The Panels are one such application but > I can envision other navigation/menu applications. People who build > these new apps should be able to use them without using the Panels app. > > Of course, when we have the Application Manager which will allow users > to choose their apps the first time they start XWiki we will display > the Panels app proeminently. >
Exactly. Although there are some strong links in the XWikiPreferences class and in the templates and skins, the wiki can work pretty well without any panels at all. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
