3 Nov
2009
3 Nov
'09
11:47 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
About the avatar, can we position it like this only with CSS or would
we need to hardcode something in templates to achieve it ?
Hi Caty,
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ecaterina Valica <valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think we need tabs for one reason, with the current proposal an
admin cannot easily view/edit users preferences or watchlists since
the only way to access them is the action menu (which is pointing to
current user pages). The need to edit other peoples watchlists has
been identified in the past.
There is also a technical reason to use tabs for this: if we want to
use the default view/inline modes for the user profile (with 3
different sheets) we won't be able to determine which sheet to use
when entering the inline mode so we need a way to switch between those
views. I think horizontal tabs would make the page look too crowded
but we could have a vertical menu on the left of the page, like the
music genre list on the left of this page: http://www.last.fm/music .
Hi devs,
- Profile - things related to the user
-
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/UserProfileProposal
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.
-
Preferences - things related to user's account
-
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/UserPreferencesPro…
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.
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?
I think tabs/vertical-menu could allow that, provided we implement a
mechanism to retrieve sheets that must appear in the menu, it is also
what we should have for the administration app in the future (it has
been done with that in mind but never finished). The menu has one
advantage compared to gadgets, it allows to use our inline mode to
edit user preferences for the given app.
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.
Thanks,
JV.