14 Apr
2014
14 Apr
'14
6:27 p.m.
So you are not opposed to the panel improvements we have proposed, but you
don't want users to create a panel per application, by themselves.
[Brainstorm]
If we agree on the idea that the application icons should be implemented
with panels, maybe we can add different kinds of panels:
A - the normal panels: what we already have
B - auto-generated "virtual" panels.
For these (B), we can propose in the panel wizard some panels that do not
really exists, but that are generated upon app descriptors.
Other idea: a document listener that generates the appropriate application
panel every time the app descriptor is changed.
In the two cases, we need to define what a descriptor is. Caty is writing a
proposal about it and we will post it here when it is ready.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Louis-Marie
2014-04-10 21:06 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea <
mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com>gt;:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Guillaume
"Louis-Marie" Delhumeau
<gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
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But developers already needs to create a UI
Extension, why not a panel?
Because for the panel you'd have to write code.. Moreover, we
discussed about the fact that the non-typed parameters of the UI
Extension are not always a good idea and that for the application
panel a dedicated class would have been better (with typed
properties). There is a big difference between having:
icon: myIcon.png
and
content:
#if ($panelWidth == "small")
[[image:myIcon.png]]
#else
## Display stuff as a list
#end
The first is semantic (data) and can be reused in other places. The
second would have to take the image from a property in order to not
duplicate the application icon, so more code.. The first is clear to
the developer: he has to specify the application icon. The second is
not, without reading documentation about what to write in the panel
content in order to have the application icon available for the
application bar.
Maybe we should provide a template for this kind
of panels so it would be
very easy to create a new one, or a wizard that generates it easily?
I find it awkward to ask the dev to create a panel in order to display
an icon on the application bar. The dev should just fill an
application descriptor and then the App Bar manager (panel wizard or
whatever) should create a panel on the fly (if that is needed for the
underlying implementation) to display the icon/shortcut on the
application bar.
Thanks,
Marius
2014-04-10 16:09 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea <
mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com>gt;:
> To be clear, I'm not against reusing the left panels bar for the app
> bar. What I don't like is asking application developers to write a
> panel (boilerplate code) in order to have their application listed
> somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea
> <mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
> > I don't like it very much. Instead of writing code like this:
> >
> > #if ($panelWidth == "small")
> > ## Display stuff as icons
> > #else
> > ## Display stuff as a list
> > #end
> >
> > in a panel, I would prefer to describe my application using an XClass
> > (with properties for app name and icon). Then the system (XWiki, Panel
> > Wizard, whatever) should use these data (app name and icon) to build
> > and UI that lets the user put shortcuts to his favourite app to a bar.
> > If you want, the system should create this "panel". Asking app
> > developers to write this boilerplate code to have their app listed is
> > not nice.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marius
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau
> > <gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> After some discussions with Caty and Vincent, we would like to
propose
you
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replaces our previous
> propositions about the Flamingo Applications Bar.
>
> The proposal is there, with more explanations and screenshots:
> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/PanelsImprovements
>
> Here is my +1.
>
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