On Mar 22, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Luca Anca wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got some suggestions that the current way of editing the dashboard > is not really intuitive (Edit -> Inline Form), and mainly because users > wouldn't necessarily look under "Edit" for a method to change the > dashboard. Also, other users that I've observed, forgot that they need > to go in some edit mode before changing things. > > I also agree that without documentation no user would figure out that > editing a dashboard is under Edit -> Inline Form. While editing will > still remain "in inline mode", from the technical pov, we need to > provide a easier way for users to discover this. > > Let's look at the following options: > > 1/ Add a "Customize" menu entry under edit, in the page menu, as > proposed in the mockups from Cati, a long time ago: > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/GadgetsDashboard . > > 2/ Add a "Customize this dashboard" button in the dashboard in view > mode, in the top right corner, something like > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/GadgetIntegration/oldDashboardCustomize.png > but styled better to integrate with the current dashboard. > > 3/ Define and implement a mechanism to allow the inline form edit to be > triggered for a document without that document having to include a > document which has an object in it. E.g. as Vincent proposed at one > point, trigger inline mode when an object is present in the current > document.
I'd like to have an XObject that tells what is the default edit mode. Then add it to the home page and make that page a full dashboard, possibly with the welcome message as a gadget. Whether we also need 1/ or 2/ is debatable but independently of this I'd like to implement this 3. Thanks -Vincent > I should note that solutions 1 and 3 still assume that the user will go > to "Edit" to try to customize the dashboard, which can also be > problematic (I cannot figure it out for sure right now, we need fresh > users or proper UX expertise which I don't have). > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > Anca _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
