On 07/08/2010 01:41 PM, Florin Ciubotaru wrote:
Hi Anca,
+1 for A)
I like the fact that this will easily get integrated into the wysiwyg, the fact that it offers more display freedom, better reuse and cleaner syntax.
also, it would not necessarily be cleaner syntax, from one point of view: We need to find a way to specify the gadgets in a dashboard and, if any macro can be used as a gadget, it means that we're gonna find a method to display these macros as gadgets without adding extra params (like title, width, height, position in the dashboard).
Sorry, I didn't follow your roadmap, but how do you plan to integrate this into the platform? I see the gadgets/directory/dashboard as distinct elements. Are these going to be implemented(to be read 'implemented& released') separately or in one big step?
Thanks, Florin Ciubotaru
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Anca Luca<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
Following the implementation of gadgets we'd need to discuss the approach of implementing xwiki as an open social container (also see
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HXWikiasOpenSoc... for the discussion). There are 2 approaches that can be used:
Short story: Option A): open social gadgets are imported as xwiki macros (one macro for each imported gadget), the xwiki dashboard works with macros as gadgets, to publish the xwiki macros as gadgets we provide an automatic transformation of xwiki macros in open social gadgets XML definition
Option B): dashboard accepts a single macro inside, the {{gadget}} macro, which will specify a reference to the gadget to display (URL to XML if it's open social, page reference if it's xwiki gadget) and the parameters, there would be a mechanism to automatically publish these xwiki pages as gadgets (to be used either by this {{gadget}} macro or by other containers).
Long story (also discussing possible approaches for subproblems, and also containing some pros& cons):
Option A) See
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HProposalA-Gadg...
Option B) See
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HProposalB-Allg...
WDYT? Do you think there are other possible approaches that should be added to this list before the vote? What do you think would be more suitable?
Some usage scenarios are documented at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/GadgetIntegration#HScenarios . Please, if you feel the list is not complete, contribute your usecases.
Thanks, Anca
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