Hi Caty,
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
I was thinking about the exact same idea after doing a demo yesterday :-)
> > 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.
>
It's the fastest way to solve the issue at hand, with the lowest overhead.
Caty, you could even offer it right away as an extension on
extensions.xwiki.org , you simply need to create a wiki macro. We could
call it "gadget text" if that makes you feel better.
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.
>
This means changing the existing dashboard architecture which is going to
take ages, with nobody assigned to it right now. Caty's solution is both
faster and simpler.
I'm +1!
Guillaume
Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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