[xwiki-devs] [UX][Proposal] Improvements on editing welcome block

Hi, I have received numerous complains that simple users have problems in editing the content and title of the Welcome block ("Welcome to you wiki" gadget) from the homepage. There are multiple factors that influence the editing of that particular gadget and that make the job especially harder for beginners. One of these factors is that the gadget used to display the Welcome content is an "include" gadget. Without some custom actions for the gadget that would let the user navigate to the included page or without some auto-redirect mechanism, the simple users have difficulties in understanding where the welcome content is coming from and what actions they need to do in order to edit that content. Also the "include" macro has a lot of advanced properties that can be scary and confusing for users (context, reference, section, type, etc.). My proposal is to create a new "text" gadget. This gadget will be very-very simple and will contain just the gadget's title and the gadget's content. Its only purpose will be to let users add textual information inside a dashboard. http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/EditingWelcomeMess… Right now we have specialized gadgets for HTML content, velocity content, code in general, boxes, success messages, etc. but no way to put just a simple text inside the dashboard. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Caty