[xwiki-devs] New Admin Design direction

Hi, Some comments I've discussed with JV about implementing http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ImproveWikiAdministration I believe we should design it in the following manner: * The Admin page is a generic empty shell * An XWiki instance is made of applications (admin pages like users/ groups/configs are part of the admin application too). Examples: Blog, Calendar, Panels, etc * Each application should be able to contribute admin pages to configure/administrate itself. These pages should automatically appear in the left menu on the new admin page. Note that this will require interface extensions so right now we would hardcode them in the menu. * What it means is that the admin page should link to the admin pages located in the applications providing them. I know we're missing the interface extensions to make this work but I'd like that our design for the new admin page works towards this goal in mind. WDYT? Note: This email was prompted by Evelina asking if it was ok to attach XARs to be imported in the XWiki.XWikiPeferences page. IMO it's not a good thing to do. The XARs should be attached in the ImportExport application pages (as it's done now). Now I have no idea how easy or hard this is to implement since I haven't dived in the implementation. Thanks -Vincent