Adding a widget to a desktop with multiple panes is confusing about owf-framework

[drewwarren]

A plugin that I wrote to make this more obvious is at https://gist.github.com/drewwarren/7a90d6454415286c36b6 . For the plugin to work you also need the fix to issue #2.

The wording is generic because it also modifies the look of dragging a widget within a dashboard. It would be more complex, but ideal if we could differentiate between dragging/launching, as well as putting the widget name in the message.

This approach isn't as clean looking as the existing approach, however it fixes the issue of users having no clue what they are supposed to do after selecting a widget to launch. You could probably get rid of the "Choose a Pane" text over every pane IF the highlight-dashboard-designer-drop class was applied right away. However, this class is not applied until the user moves their mouse (they also could be over a pane separator.) I tried using a bottom right pnotification saying "Click on a pane to launch the widget" but not many people noticed it, and then it faded out. Another issue with the technique this plugin uses is that a small "select this pane" message shows up in the dashboard designer when doing drag-n-drop.

[tinaColemanNextCentury]

We are considering this issue as part of the redesign of the UX for the ozoneplatform overall. We don't at this point anticipate fixing this with the OWF7 baseline, but do anticipate revisiting post-kernelj/ozoneplatform release.