+1 in general, but depends on the application. The gadget needs to make sense to be put on the Dashboard. This thread is very similar to the need of providing Panels for Applications (especially since Flamingo is panel oriented).
Thanks, Caty On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > On > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ApplicationDevelopmentBestPracticeswe > list some app dev best practices. I'm proposing to add one more bullet > point which is that apps bundle one or several (but at least one) Dashboard > Gadget (technically a Macro) so that users can easily add a view of the app > on the home page (in their dashboard). > > > > For example: > > * FAQ app already provides a {{faq}} gadget to list all entries for a > given FAQ app > > * Index app already provides a {{document}} gadget to list all documents > matching some criteria > > * Blog app doesn't currently provide such a gadget (it provides a > velocity macro but that's not a gadget) > > * Forum app should provide a {{forums}} gadget too to list all forums > and a {{forum}} one to list entries from a given forum > > * etc > > > > WDYT? > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
