[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Customize button for the dashboard

Hi all, I've got some suggestions that the current way of editing the dashboard is not really intuitive (Edit -> Inline Form), and mainly because users wouldn't necessarily look under "Edit" for a method to change the dashboard. Also, other users that I've observed, forgot that they need to go in some edit mode before changing things. I also agree that without documentation no user would figure out that editing a dashboard is under Edit -> Inline Form. While editing will still remain "in inline mode", from the technical pov, we need to provide a easier way for users to discover this. Let's look at the following options: 1/ Add a "Customize" menu entry under edit, in the page menu, as proposed in the mockups from Cati, a long time ago: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/GadgetsDashboard . 2/ Add a "Customize this dashboard" button in the dashboard in view mode, in the top right corner, something like http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/GadgetIntegration/oldDashboa… but styled better to integrate with the current dashboard. 3/ Define and implement a mechanism to allow the inline form edit to be triggered for a document without that document having to include a document which has an object in it. E.g. as Vincent proposed at one point, trigger inline mode when an object is present in the current document. I should note that solutions 1 and 3 still assume that the user will go to "Edit" to try to customize the dashboard, which can also be problematic (I cannot figure it out for sure right now, we need fresh users or proper UX expertise which I don't have). WDYT? Thanks, Anca