On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
There have been some recently discussions about Application Descriptors and their utility when generating content for XWiki features, like taking the icon field from the descriptor in order to generate the application panel for the AppBar, etc.
I've gathered some use cases / needs on this page: http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/ApplicationDescriptor
It would be nice to brainstorm a bit if we consider the 'Application Descriptor' concept to be needed in our future, especially since the Flamingo Skin is focused heavily on the Applications concept.
I would be curious why this concept has been deprecated (Application Manager):
It hasn't been deprecated, it just never been in XE.
* maybe the fields the descriptor contained are deprecated by the Extension Manager;
There is no such thing as application descriptor in Extension Manager.
* maybe a bad usage; * etc.
And also very important is what fields you consider should be needed in the Application Descriptor and ways to make it easily extensible.
Having an Application Descriptor would facilitate having an index containing all applications, called Application Index, in order to help the user navigate and manage the installed applications outside the Extension Manager (which is found in Administration).
I really don't see the point in having two indexes of extensions. This is really not the main benefit we would get from an application descriptor.
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