31 Mar
2009
31 Mar
'09
12:03 p.m.
Hi Guillaume, thank you for your prompt answer.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <guillaume(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi Alex,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Alexandru Cismaru
<alex.cismaru(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
My mockups are for the desktop/web widget, but I think the firefox extension
will also look approximately like the widget. I'm thinking of adding a tiny
icon on the status bar that notifies you when something updates, and when
you click on the icon it displays a tabbed widget similar to the desktop/web
widget. The main difference will be in the Preferences screen, where you
will add and remove accounts. The widget will also have a combo for
switching between accounts. What do you think?
Hi. I'm Alexandru Cismaru (MSc student in
Iasi) , last year I was a
GSOC
student at XWiki, with the RESTful API project.
This year I'm interested again in another project, *XWiki Cross
Platform
Web and Desktop Widget*. I have done some
research and talked with
Ludovic,
Sergiu and Guillaume on the IRC, so this is what
I came out so far:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/XWikiWidgetandFirefoxextension.
Looks cool, good work. Overall I like it. I am wondering about a couple
things:
- Are your mockups for the FF extension of for the desktop widget?
- If you plan on implementing desktop widgets, have you given a look at
the different widget platforms to see how hard your ideas were to
implement?
Not really. I think if I develop a widget for a platform (let's say Google
Gadgets), it will be quite easy to change the code in order to suite another
widget platform. I'll put more information about the implementation on the
design page, but I need to think about the modules, and how I can make my
code extensible.
- I'm not sure you'll be able to avoid scrolling, in a small widget
scrolling seems better than pagination (be it only because every mouse
has a
scrolling wheel which makes scrolling efficient and easy while pagination
takes an additional click)
Don't know, maybe we can find a solution that both looks good and behaves
properly.
- I'm not sure the additional RSS feed is that much needed -> if the user
already has his watchlist + the public feed, what will the RSS feed be
useful for? Doesn't it add complexity without much benefits to be
expected?
I thought it would be nice to give the user the possibility to personalize
his watchlist tab and I saw that XWiki provides with many rss feeds, for
different things.
- Have you given a look to
http://www.socialtext.com/products/desktop.php? You might get some
inspiration from their implementation.
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look.
Subsidiary question: if you're planning to develop using HTML + CSS, is
using the Adobe AIR framework an option? It would provide us with a
cross-platform widget right away, which would be cool... Do you think you
could spend, say, 30 minutes investigating the feasability / interest of
using the AIR framework for a widget? This might have OSS implications as
well (though I don't see why AIR code cuoldn't be Open-Souce), what do
others think?
I'll make some reasearch.
Thanks again,
Alex
Note to other GSoCers -> ask one of the mentors if you want access to the
mockup creation tool on incubator.myxwiki.org.
Guillaume
Please give me your feedback and ideas.
Thank you,
Alexandru Cismaru
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