On 09/20/2010 06:16 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
  On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Anca
Luca<lucaa(a)xwiki.com>  wrote:
  Hi devs,
 actually after a discussion I had with Vincent about naming, we thought
 of the following approach, for a more general purpose:
 1/ section turns into ** container ** and it gets a parameter called
 **layoutStyle** to specify the type of layout for its contents. One of
 the possible values of this param would be "columns" and it would be the
 only one implemented for the moment.
 2/ the content of this container macro would be a **list of groups**,
 wiki syntax groups, like ((( ... ))). There's no point of having a macro
 that does nothing else but specify that some items should be grouped
 together.
 With these, the syntax of columned content would now be:
 {{container layoutStyle="columns"}}
 ((( some wiki content )))
 ((( some other wiki content)))
 {{/container}}
 
 I don't like too much "container", it's not very explicit its use is
 "layouting". Do you see there are other uses?  Why not "{{layout
 style='columns'}}" ? 
 For example you could use it to also provide borders, and size,
 eventually ending up implementing the box as a special case of container
 macro.
 Also, if you abandon the column macro, you abandon the possibility to its
 potential parameters. 
 This is a very good argument actually, particularly if we think about
 the simple case of columns that take percents of the page width, the
 percent should be passable as a parameter of the column macro, I don't
 like the idea of specially parsing the group parameters.
 WDYT?
 Also if we think about a border layout (a la Swing), we'd need a group
 to specify its position.
 In this case, a new vote would be for the name of the inner macro, which
 needs to have a suggestive name. Proposals:
 a) content
 b) item
 c) group
 d) widget
 e) part
 f) element
 g) entity
 
I like "item"
could be containerItem, containerElement ?
"group" is too technical IMHO.
  My +1 for c).
 WDYT? in general about this limitation and in particular about the name
 of the macro to use.
  Still one could use group parameters as a
replacement,
 but you cannot achieve exactly the same (from the WYSIWYG interaction
 perspective for example). 
 The wysiwyg cannot handle nested macros in any case, 
I know, but I dare to hope they be supported at some point :)
Jerome.
  at least not for
 the moment and I don't think it's really that much envisaged.
 Thanks,
 Anca
 +0 anyway
 Jerome.
> The dashboard macro would then just delegate to a container macro with
> columns layout style.
>
> I like this approach, +1.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Once I get your votes, I will commit this in the platform.
>
> Thanks,
> Anca
>
> On 09/17/2010 03:56 PM, Anca Luca wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> wdyt about committing the section&   macro columns from the contrib
>> (
> 
 https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/projects/xwiki-macro-column/)
    in the platform macros, along with a first, very
simple implementation
 of the dashboard macro (which for the moment only delegates to the
 section macro)?
 This would be the first step towards the implementation of the
 dashboard, and the plan is to be done before 2.5M2.
 Here's my +1.
 WDYT?
 Anca
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