On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Like Vincent, I do not really think we have thoroughly worked > our templates. IMO, templates should not be considered a good base for > implementing UI extension point blindly. > > Currently templates were closely linked with our distributed skin. When we > have introduce Colibri, new templates were added, especially to support the > new content menu for example, and other were ignored, left over since no > more useful. Do you consider UI extension point to be closely linked with > our skin ? What would happen when we implement the bootstrap based skin ? >
When I look at the list of UIXP I pasted I don't see it closely related to a specific skin. Some names are not perfect, but again I don't think we can afford renaming them (because of our skin overriding mechanism). What problem do you foresee with a bootstrap based skin ? Would it be difficult to keep current template names ? > Just think about the proposal from Cathy, there is no more left panels... Does the fact that the proposal have a single panel in the left column means that we should consider dropping the panel feature ? > but an applications panel or whatever, how do you expect to support > platform.template.leftpanels.top, platform.template.leftpanels.bottom, what > would be there meaning ? > We could drop leftpanels.vm and rightpanels.vm and make the panel app hook itself to platform.template.endpage.top. > For sure doing 1) is harder, but creating truly semantic UIXP could have > real advantage for maintenance and compatibility of code that use those > UIXP. So I would really prefer a few initial set of those semantic UIXP to > start with, than that long list of not necessarily useful and meaningful > ones. And, at least, I would like to read more opinion to consider 2). > 1) is harder and I'm afraid it can start endless discussions :) JV, _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
