On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There have been some recently discussions about Application Descriptors and > their utility when generating content for XWiki features, like taking the > icon field from the descriptor in order to generate the application panel > for the AppBar, etc. > > I've gathered some use cases / needs on this page: > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ApplicationDescriptor > > It would be nice to brainstorm a bit if we consider the 'Application > Descriptor' concept to be needed in our future, especially since the > Flamingo Skin is focused heavily on the Applications concept. > > I would be curious why this concept has been deprecated (Application > Manager):
It hasn't been deprecated, it just never been in XE. > * maybe the fields the descriptor contained are deprecated by the Extension > Manager; There is no such thing as application descriptor in Extension Manager. > * maybe a bad usage; > * etc. > > And also very important is what fields you consider should be needed in the > Application Descriptor and ways to make it easily extensible. > > Having an Application Descriptor would facilitate having an index > containing all applications, called Application Index, in order to help the > user navigate and manage the installed applications outside the Extension > Manager (which is found in Administration). I really don't see the point in having two indexes of extensions. This is really not the main benefit we would get from an application descriptor. > > Thanks, > Caty & Louis-Marie > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
