[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-18813) Convert JBoss Central to an HTML5 page

[Fred Bricon (JIRA)]

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Fred Bricon commented on JBIDE-18813:
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Hi Catherine, sorry for the late response, but here goes :

I very much like the design concept A, not so much B, because I think it'll make a much better candidate for a "responsive design". Central needs to scale and "degrade" gracefully in a very small window, A looks definitely better in that perspective.

I'm not sold on the access panel concept, but that might be something we could pursue in a later iteration. I'd be willing to put that aside for the moment.[~burrsutter] and [~maxandersen], thoughts?

Back to concept A : 
- we might want to have the "start a project" tab opened by default. Or always display last opened tab first.
- the add tooling capabilities tab would link to the existing SWT-based Software page, but we couldn't use HTML there. Might be an issue. 
- we prolly want to promote JBoss Tools CAT (JBIDE-18871) in the join the community tab
- the whole customizability idea comes from the fact we're gonna dynamically add content to central, e.g. a Fuse wizard, maybe JBPM stuff later. The basic idea is to, the first time Central is opened, ask the user what he's most interested in (Mobile? JavaEE?...) and may be give a priority to these areas of interest. He might also want to hide some uninteresting stuff later (eg. no Openshift). I like the favorite wizards/quickstarts approach you proposed.

[~burrsutter] and [~maxandersen] can definitely give you some more input on the stuff they'd like Central to be.


> Convert JBoss Central to an HTML5 page
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-18813
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18813
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>          Components: central
>    Affects Versions: 4.3.0.Alpha1
>            Reporter: Fred Bricon
>            Assignee: Fred Bricon
>             Fix For: 4.3.0.Alpha1
>
>         Attachments: Central Design Concept A.bmml, Central Design Concept A.bmml, Central Design Concept A.png, Central Design Concept B.bmml, Central Design Concept B.bmml, Central Design Concept B.png, JBoss Access Panel Concept.bmml, JBoss Access Panel Concept.png, JBoss Central User Stories and Flows.gliffy, Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 4.38.58 PM.png
>
>
> Central Page requires new capabilities :
> - needs more customization (display content depending on user preferences)
> - needs to scale with JBDS-IS, Fuse content
> - access to more examples, with filtering capabilities
> Given that the existing page is pretty hard to maintain and suffers from scalability/UI bugs, we're heading towards an HTML5 approach : 
> - use an embedded SWT Browser widget (or Java FX), depending on the platform compatibility
> - webpage and its content could be served remotely (as zip), and downloaded locally for offline use. this would give us more flexibility to update the content.



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