Cristal UI … and some "Field" ideas …

Hello again and sorry, if I give you “too” much feedback …

2 Ideas, that can be combined.

First:
There is a project, that xWiki has startet, to combine some other projects under 1 frontend. The name is Cristal UI.

The Projects are:
Github, NextCoud, xWiki, Jitsi and some other.

The idea is to make moduls, you can exchange, to add more functionality.
I think, more information you can get with this video:

or the website:
https://cristal.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

While this idea didn’t get out of my mind, I thougt about the field …
Here are my ideas about that:

The field can have some different types of paragraphs, such as headers, checkboxes and so on.
Some more paragraph types, you can extend as Plugins or Addons:

  • Video Link (gets rendered)
  • Wiki site (that gets rendered)
  • Maps (as I wrote already)
  • Picture (with several more attributes or settings)
  • Audio Files (you can play them, maybe translate them into text)
  • Charts
  • 3D Pictures

The idea is to have an intertreter, that can handle different fieldtypes for many use cases.

It is not about supporting everything, but to be flexible …
(That is the idea of Cristal … so you can reuse the modules even for other projects)

Hi again,
No problem about too much feedback really :slight_smile:
But we do have very limited resource and it’s a bit soon for us to think about what seems to be very specific use cases.
Thanks for your input!

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