On 06/21/2010 07:04 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 16:10, 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)
>
> +1
>
>> * 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
>
> Not sure what you mean in 6/
Publishing the XWiki gadgets ("most viewed pages", for example) as open
social gadgets, so that they can be used anywhere where gadgets are
supported (iGoogle, for example). Basically we would need to be able to
(automatically) publish such thing
http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/reference.html for all these
gadgets.
Thanks,
Anca
>
>>
>> WDYT about the order above? (B) with the mention that points 5 and 6
>> could eventually be infinitely postponed.
>
> +1 sounds good
>
>>
>> Also, after points 1 and 2 are implemented, the feature could be
>> available with xwiki platform and integrated in XE by default. WDYT? (C)
>
> +1
>
>>
>> my +1 for (A), (B) and (C).
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>> Anca
>>
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