On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > We have recently extracted the functionality of sending messages from the > activity macro into a new messageSender macro [1][2]. However, for > backwards compatibility reasons, the activity macro still uses by default > (unless the parameter messageSender='false' is specified) the messageSender > macro so the users still see the ability to send messages as a feature of > the activity macro. > > The proposal is that, for 4.1, we follow the original jira [2] issue idea > (as seen in the issue's images) and: > - Completely remove the messageSender macro call from activity macro > (including the recently introduced messageSender=true/false parameter) > - Providing instead a "Send Message" gadget for the main Dashboard that > will use the new messageSender macro > > This way we have 2 clear macros, no more mixing: > - messageSender for sending messages > - activity for displaying messages (and other events) > > Additionally, it makes it easier for users to remove the ability to send > messages from the homepage by editing the Dahsboard and removing the "Send > Message" gadget. > > Here's my +1.
+1 as well. > Thanks, > Eduard > > ---------- > [1] http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/mxpkpqfplbznfgbd > [2] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7679 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
