Re: [xwiki-devs] XWiki Firefox extension

Hi, On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Alexandru Cismaru wrote: Actually the initial goal of XEclipse is to be a productivity tool so exactly what you describe for XWikiFox :) My vision is to make XEclipse also receive events and be available in the system tray and thus show notification popups when changes happen. Re whether both can exist or not, it's only going to be a matter of how many contributors/committers maintain them. If you're volunteering for maintaining XWikiFox on the long run then indeed it can exist for as long as you maintain it :) That said, it's a good question since we can ask ourselves whether joining forces wouldn't be better. Right now for example we don't have many people working on XEclipse unfortunately even though it's really promising. Another aspect is that XEclipse is written in java so it makes a bit easier to maintain and extend it (for example it's easy to integrate Thomas's remote events in it whereas it's more complex with XWikiFox since it's written in JS and listening to a jgroup channel in JS might not be as easy as in Java). Last aspect: not everyone is using FF and it's a pity that those who don't cannot access the XWikiFox features. They can use XEclipse though since it works everywhere. IMO we need to think about a direction for XWikiFox that wouldn't be the one that XEclipse is following. Let's see what others think. To finish, as I told you on IM, I really like the UI you've done and I think you've done a good job with XWikiFox. I blame myself for not having spendtenough time to think about it at the beginning of the SOC project and playing the joykiller. So don't be deterred by what I said and keep working on it to polish it. It's very promising :) Thanks for your work -Vincent