On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Except for a short period of time where the old wikimanager was moved to XE until it was replaced with the new wiki module. > >> * 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 -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
