On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have received numerous complains that simple users have problems in
> editing the content and title of the Welcome block ("Welcome to you wiki"
> gadget) from the homepage.
> There are multiple factors that influence the editing of that particular
> gadget and that make the job especially harder for beginners.
>
> One of these factors is that the gadget used to display the Welcome content
> is an "include" gadget. Without some custom actions for the gadget that
> would let the user navigate to the included page or without some
> auto-redirect mechanism, the simple users have difficulties in
> understanding where the welcome content is coming from and what actions
> they need to do in order to edit that content.
> Also the "include" macro has a lot of advanced properties that can be scary
> and confusing for users (context, reference, section, type, etc.).
>
> My proposal is to create a new "text" gadget. This gadget will be very-very
> simple and will contain just the gadget's title and the gadget's content.
> Its only purpose will be to let users add textual information inside a
> dashboard.
> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/EditingWelcomeMessage#HProposal
>
> Right now we have specialized gadgets for HTML content, velocity content,
> code in general, boxes, success messages, etc. but no way to put just a
> simple text inside the dashboard.
Indeed when editing the dashboard we should be able to not use a gadget and
instead type directly the content in wysiwyg mode.
I don't think we should have a "text" macro though.
One idea is that the Add gadget button should open a custom Gadget dialog box
that allows to specify the title and for the content it should display the
WYSIWYG editor, thus allowing to insert macros like for any content.
Thanks
-Vincent
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