Re: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Dashboardification of the Main.WebHome

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:57, Luca Anca &lt;lucaa(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: IMO I don't like at all the panels style (WikiDashboardPanels.png<http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/G…)g>). It adds too much weight on the visual aspect and does not bring any value. IMO the dashboard should be something invisible, like magic somehow for the editor, not for the viewer. The editor should benefit from all the advantages a dashboard system offers: easily add new modules, configure or manage existing ones, without writing too much code. I don't understand why if we have a new feature ("dashboard") we should emphase it like this: changing the look of the homepage, changing the title. I don't want my homepage to look like JIRA. My wiki should be based and focused on the content, not on the back techniques I use. With the panels style I'm more focused that I use 4 types of gadgets, than to actually see what is the content of those gadgets. So what if the user will not know that we have now dashboards? They will see that if they go to edit mode. This feature will help them achieve things faster, but is not necessary to change the way they were doing things until now. As a conclusion, IMO the main page should be "Welcome ...", or "Home"; "Wiki Dashboard" doesn't sound like a starting page for me (unless maybe if I am a technical user, but also not in this case). And the naming is very important because it will prefix all the breadcrumbs. Regarding this and also http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/b3xyxpg5f5wla4h7 I think we should change something. I work for 2 years at XWiki and tested every day snapshots and this is the first time I read that message and didn't provide me anything of help. We could do a help gadget or an introduction gadget (that can be easily removed using the dashboard system) to help new users out. Thanks, Caty