On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 18:45, Anca Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Yep i finally got it with the answer Vincent gave to it but thanks :)

>
> 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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