OK, that sounds fair. If we wind up in a time crunch, I think that the very least, we could update the layouts so that they have reasonable default column widths specified. Without any default widths, the columns all default to 100%, which is why some of the columns on the right hand side look squished.
I'll try and put up a wiki page tonight. - Jen On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Eric Dalquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds like a great proposal Jen. As with most things uP3 related > my concern is time. Also this is would, in my mind, constitute a large > enough change that I would like to have a RC3 release after this is > complete. > > For that to be possible, since we're planning on GA being released > before the conference, the work would need to be complete by March 21st. > If this sounds reasonable to you lets get going on this and please let > everyone on-list know what they can do to help get the layout changes > made. > > Thanks! > -Eric > > Jen Bourey wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > While trying out the up3 quickstart, it occurred to me that we might > > want to put some thought into updating the default user layouts before > > the GA release. Some of the channels are pretty old, and a few of the > > feeds are broken. > > > > I was thinking it might make sense to add some new example feeds - > > perhaps ones that might be particularly useful to end users (maybe the > > NY Times or BBC News, or something like that) or are JA-SIG related or > > otherwise technology focused. New image channels in addition to the > > Daily Business Cartoon might be nice too. The number of available RSS > > feeds has increased substantially in the last few years. > > > > Having updated CWebProxy and IFrame examples might be nice too. In > > particular, it would be nice if we had a site or two with a clean, > > small layout (not very wide, in particular) that would display nicely > > as CWebProxy or IFrame channels. It seems like there's some content in > > the default layout that isn't necessarily particularly interesting by > > itself, but serves as a useful example, such as the Minesweeper > > channel. Maybe some of these channels could be labeled as "Example > > Applet", "Example Image Channel", etc. This might also make it more > > clear what features the channels are intended to demonstrate. I'd > > also love to make some of the new, cool portlets like the Google > > search and bookmarks portlets more visible. > > > > I think the guest layout in particular could use some modification. > > The DLM admin guide probably isn't the most useful thing to see as the > > very first screen you see after downloading the quickstart. Also, I > > don't know if that channel is actually being updated; pointing to the > > documentation in the up3 manual and the wiki might make more sense at > > this point. > > It might be particularly cool to have a list of useful uPortal related > > bookmarks in the portal. I was thinking of something that maybe had > > links to the up3 manual, the wiki, the JA-SIG newsletter, email lists, > > the list of uportal-driven sites, commercial partners, etc. Someday > > it would be pretty neat if we had a way of initializing a bookmarks > > portlet with this list. For now, that seems like a heavy list for > > this release, but it would be easy to implement this as a CGenericXSLT > > channel for the time being. > > > > Does this sound like something that might be valuable for the 3.0 > > general release? Do you all have opinions and suggestions regarding > > what new content we could add? If we came up with a new layout, or > > layout modifications, I'd be more than happy to modify the layout > > resources that are used to set up the up3 database accordingly. > > > > If we do decide some updates are a good idea, where might be a good > > place in the wiki to start recording this information for collaboration? > > > > - Jen > > > > > -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way http://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the event. Join the Conference networking site at http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
