On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Denis Gervalle <dgl(a)softec.lu> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:49 AM, vincent(a)massol.net
<vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
On 29 May 2014 at 11:23:01, Marius Dumitru Florea (
mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com))
wrote:
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.
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?
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.
I do not really agree. Panels is (at least intended to be) a standalone
application, that is not directly related to skins. Panels themselves are
also independent. Linking panel app, panels and skin would not increase the
modularity of our solution. I do not really understand why adding that
AppBar panel change anything. If the user want an AppBar, she could
configure it easily in the panel configuration.
And regarding the default
distribution, I do not see why in the 6.x release, we couldn't change the
default panel layout.
This will have no impact on existing users that are
migrating.
I do not see any reason not to have the AppBar in
colibri by
default in the new distribution.
Because it doesn't look good? Do you think the AppBar is well
integrated into the Colibri skin as it looks like in
http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/27707/appbar.png . I don't. It
doesn't look like a panel and the first impression I had is that some
styles are missing.
I don't mind having the AppBar in Colibri, but it needs to be
integrated. The missing panel header and background may be good for
flamingo, but I don't find it nice for Colibri.
Thanks,
Marius
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
* 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.
* 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.
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
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