Last modified: 2014-09-04 04:19:47 UTC
I enabled gadgets2 role on Vagrant and when I clicked in the "Create" link in the top of http://127.0.0.1:8080/wiki/Special:Gadgets it loaded a popup named "Creating a new gadget". In that popup there is a field "Script" in the section "Module properties". For a user using Gadgets 2.0 for the first time, it will not be clear what name should be typed there: * MediaWiki:Gadget-foo.js (incorrect - this is the naming convention from 1.0) * Gadget-foo.js (incorrect - this is the naming convention from 1.0) * Foo.js (correct, but the page needs to exist first, or it will be ignored!) * Gadget:Foo.js (incorrect - even if the page exists, it will be ignored) The only case where the autocomplete feature works is when [[Gadget:Foo.js]] exists and the user types (a substring of) "Foo.js". This is not very user friendly. Maybe there should be a placeholder as the default value, and a link to the namespace somewhere (to allow the user to find existing JS pages which can be used). Same problems for CSS.
(In reply to Helder from comment #0) > * Foo.js (correct, but the page needs to exist first, or it will be ignored!) > * Gadget:Foo.js (incorrect - even if the page exists, it will be ignored) I think we should accept both of these. > Maybe there should be a placeholder as the default value, and a link to the > namespace somewhere (to allow the user to find existing JS pages which can > be used). I'm thinking "Existing title in the Gadget namespace" for the placeholder. Is that enough?
(In reply to Alex Monk from comment #1) I agree.
Change 157628 had a related patch set uploaded by Alex Monk: Clarify what the 'scripts' and 'styles' fields in the gadget manager should contain https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/157628
Change 157628 merged by jenkins-bot: Clarify what the 'scripts' and 'styles' fields in the gadget manager should contain https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/157628
