3 Jun
2014
3 Jun
'14
6:41 p.m.
Hi Vincent
2014-06-02 8:49 GMT+02:00 vincent(a)massol.net <vincent(a)massol.net>et>:
On 29 May 2014 at 11:23:01, Marius Dumitru Florea (
mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com))
wrote:
Note that Guillaume forgot to mention that the icons will be larger (see
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Skin4x/homepageDesk…).
Right now they are the ones from the panel in medium width mode because
Guillaume has implemented it yet.
@Guillaume: regarding icon colors, what would be your plan? Blue and white
colors as on
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Skin4x/homepageDesk…
even for the Colibri skin or different coloring depending on the skin?
There, we need to find a nice alternative of Silk for Flamingo.
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Guillaume
"Louis-Marie" Delhumeau
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Flamingo, we have created the concept of Application Bar, that we
have
> implemented as a Panel:
> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10254
>
> I propose to put the Application Bar by default on the left column.
>
> Since we do not have a configuration system at the skin level, it
would be
> present for both Colibri & Flamingo. I
think it is not a problem
because I
have
managed to make it look good for both (except for the size of the
icons) :
http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/27707/appbar.png
WDYT?
It doesn't look very well, and the Applications panel is redundant. I
don't have a solution though. Need to think about it. 
I also think that it might be best to not change
Colibri since people are
probably used to it for now. Now we need to find a way to have panels
defined differently for each skin for that.
If people have already customized their panels, an upgrade will not
overwrite their settings.
There are various solutions for this:
* Solution 1: Add support for storing configuration (XWikiPreferences) in
skin pages and modify the DefaultConfigurationSource to be profile > skin >
space > wiki or possibly better: profile > space > wiki > skin
I dislike this idea. Not only because it is hard to represent from an UI
point of view, but also because it is complicated from a user point of
view. It is already complicated to understand what happens when there are
rights set everywhere in pages, spaces and wikis, and I don't think it is
good to have the same problem on configuration.
If you want to have the App Bar only in flamingo, then maybe it is the role
of a flavor to propose pre-configured settings, not the role of Flamingo to
overwrite the configuration of the wiki.
* Solution 2: Refactor the UI configuration in the
Admin UI by moving all
UI-related configuration parameters in some UIConfig xobjects that depend
on the selected skin (one xobject per skin). Make the skin selection the
first item on the page and when you change it the rest of the UI
configuration below reflects the content of the UIConfig page corresponding
to that skin. This means introduction a UIConfigurationSource component
impl but that’s easy to do.
* Solution 3: Modify the leftpanels/rightpanels configuration properties
from String to TextArea and allow scripting to be put inside. Then, by
default, have some “if” to handle both Colibri and Flaming default panels.
When the user uses the Panel Wizard the first time, the value will be
overridden by the list of panels selected by the user.
I'm not fan of it but I prefer this one.
* Solution 4: In the DefaultSkin page, override
leftpanels.vm/leftpanels.vm and check if the user has defined any panel
preferences in XWikiPreferences. If so, then use them. If not, then compute
the left and right panels default values.
This one too.
There are obviously downsides to all these solutions...
Personally I think I prefer solution 1 with profile > space > wiki > skin,
i.e. if the leftpanels/rightpanels xproperties are not defined at the
profile, space, wiki levels (and by default we should leave it empty there)
then the value is taken from the skin configuration component. We would
need to define how the Panel Wizard works (we probably have an issue even
now when the panels are defined in a user’s profile). It should probably be
possible int he Panel Wizard UI to select what level is being configured
(wiki, space, profile, skin). That’s the main issue for which we need a
solution: that it is not too magical for the user when they go to the Panel
Wizard. More generally speaking a we have an issue in the Admin UI. We
should probably show the inferred values (real value used) and indicate the
value for a given property at all levels (wiki, space, profile, skin) and
allow users to easily change the value for the level they wish.
We need some more brainstorming about this. Any other ideas or variations?
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks,
Guillaume
> Thanks,
> Guillaume
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