----- "Anca Luca" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am now restarting the work on the gadgets & dashboard project,
> documented here
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration (however
>
> documentation needs to be slightly revised).
>
> What is done already can be summarized as:
> * gadgets are implemented as macros and there is a script to import
> google gadgets as xwiki macros,
> * also, right now, gadgets are implemented as xwiki macros and can be
>
> used anywhere just like a regular wiki macro, and any wiki macro can
> be
> seen/used as a gadget so **there is no difference between macros and
> gadgets** . WDYT about this? should we keep it like that? (A)
If I understand correctly, it means XWiki will not be an OpenSocial container,
but will provide a "conversion" layer to make OpenSocial gadgets work with the
XWiki gadget (= macros) system.
I'm not sure it's the proper approach. It will not encourage developers of
XWiki application / macros etc. to write their gadgets as OpenSocial gadgets,
since writing XWiki macros will be enough (so it will not be possible to
display a XWiki gadget in say JIRA).
Plus, if we make XWiki an OpenSocial container, it does not prevent us from
writing a generic XWiki gadget that can wrap any macro thus not adding too much
weight on developers.
Jerome.
> * there is a dashboard macro responsible with layouting a gadgets
> dashboard, which also provides specific editing features in inline
> mode
> (gadgets can be dragged around, toolboxes for gadgets in the top
> right)
> * there is a minimal macros directory, where one can see all the
> existing macros, descriptions, details about the parameters.
> * there is an PanelMacro macro, that displays an xwiki panel inside a
>
> document, which can be used to display xwiki panels as gadgets in a
> dashboard.
>
> The big picture of the roadmap is that we should:
>
> 1/ have a fully working dashboard, that is implement add gadget and
> edit
> gadget settings
> 2/ implement the main dashboard (Main.Dashboard) as a dashboard and
> fill
> it with the appropriate gadgets by default, and also to add a user
> specific dashboard ("My dashboard") where each user can configure
> his/her dashboard, and is available to a user from his / her profile
> or
> the user menu
> 3/ have a nice macros directory where a user can navigate through
> existing gadgets and add one to a dashboard
> 4/ have a "dashboard template", integrated with the document templates
>
> system to easily allow a user to create a dashboard
> 5/ also, since the xwiki panels can be seen as gadgets / macros, and
> can
> be implemented as such, somewhere in the future a refactoring should
> be
> made to integrate the 2 notions
> 6/ be able to publish the gadgets in the wiki such that other apps can
>
> integrate this in their content
>
> WDYT about the order above? (B) with the mention that points 5 and 6
> could eventually be infinitely postponed.
>
> Also, after points 1 and 2 are implemented, the feature could be
> available with xwiki platform and integrated in XE by default. WDYT?
> (C)
>
> my +1 for (A), (B) and (C).
>
> Happy hacking,
> Anca
>
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