Hi Anamaria,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Anamaria Stoica <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need some help locating the code for Google Gadgets (
> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Gadgets/). I don't see it in
> platform/xwiki-applications or platform/xwiki-plugins (in
> http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/).
>
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Gadgets/?viewer=code &
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Gadgets/Macros?viewer=code &
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Gadgets/GadgetsDirectory?viewer=code
You'll see that the second page is called in the first through an
#includeMacros() call.


> Also what is it : an application, plugin, component ? (combination of
> them?)
>
It's made of only 3 wiki pages, thus it's an application.


> Is it implemented as a container that supports the original gadgets API.
> How
> about the Open Social API ? (as the project specifies, they should both be
> implemented)


>From looking at the code, it looks much simpler than that. Basically, the
gagdget is included in the page and displayed in a wiki panel, without any
advanced integration. I'm not sure of what more the OpenSocial API would
require.

> I think it would be nice to allow users to add gadgets/open social gadgets
> to the sidebar as well, not only on the Dashboard page. What do you think ?

Indeed, that would be a good idea.
Guillaume


> Thanks,
> Anamaria
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