Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal][UX] User Profile and Preferences

Hi Caty, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ecaterina Valica <valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote: Nice Action menu, I like it. Nice. However I think I would have preferred a way to go more easily from profile to preferences to watchlist. Maybe some tabs. In this case there might not be a need for the various menu entries for the logged-in user. Anyway I'm ok with whatever you guys feel is good since it's already an improvement from what we have. Nice. It's missing the ability to change the avatar. In general for both the profile and the preferences we need an extensible solution (it's probably something to pay attention to when we implement it) since every company using XWiki will want to have different fields displayed and even custom fields. Recent Activity, definitely +1 Groups: +0. Sounds good, just not sure it's the most critical information to display on the main user page. I'd have seen it on some extra information page maybe. I guess it depends on what other things we want displayed on the user profile page. In some near future, we might want bookmarks displayed. Question 1: Imagine someone wants to write an application (XAR) that extends the User Profile. For example a Bookmark application. How would we write this in a dynamic manner? Question 2: For the further future, maybe the user profile should be made out of google social gadgets and we would implement predefined gagdets such as recent activity, user info, use groups, etc. This could solve question 1. IMO it's the user sheet used to display the user info that should be pluggable. I know Thomas Eveillau will have some ideas on this too. We should ask him. +1 to apply all this ASAP for the 2.1 timeframe (we don't have much time left) and iterate after to improve it. Thanks -Vincent