On Mar 1, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Like Vincent, I do not really think we have thoroughly worked >> our templates. IMO, templates should not be considered a good base for >> implementing UI extension point blindly. >> >> Currently templates were closely linked with our distributed skin. When we >> have introduce Colibri, new templates were added, especially to support the >> new content menu for example, and other were ignored, left over since no >> more useful. Do you consider UI extension point to be closely linked with >> our skin ? What would happen when we implement the bootstrap based skin ? >> > > When I look at the list of UIXP I pasted I don't see it closely > related to a specific skin. > Some names are not perfect, but again I don't think we can afford > renaming them (because of our skin overriding mechanism). > What problem do you foresee with a bootstrap based skin ? Would it be > difficult to keep current template names ? > >> Just think about the proposal from Cathy, there is no more left panels... > > Does the fact that the proposal have a single panel in the left column > means that we should consider dropping the panel feature ? > >> but an applications panel or whatever, how do you expect to support >> platform.template.leftpanels.top, platform.template.leftpanels.bottom, what >> would be there meaning ? >> > > We could drop leftpanels.vm and rightpanels.vm and make the panel app > hook itself to platform.template.endpage.top. > >> For sure doing 1) is harder, but creating truly semantic UIXP could have >> real advantage for maintenance and compatibility of code that use those >> UIXP. So I would really prefer a few initial set of those semantic UIXP to >> start with, than that long list of not necessarily useful and meaningful >> ones. And, at least, I would like to read more opinion to consider 2). >> > > 1) is harder and I'm afraid it can start endless discussions :) That's exactly why we need 1) :) Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
