It would be great if we could develop a panel above the news panel on the staff interface that would serve as a widget dashboard in which we could activate future developed widgets. For example, I currently use jQuery mods to move the #area-pending element that houses the patron suggestions patrons requesting modifications up above the news. I've also recently added a panel to show upcoming library closures. Maybe in the future those could be turned into option widgets that could be added to this dashboard. And maybe others could be developed to show libraries that are closed, show the number of holds waiting to be pulled at your library, show curbside statuses, etc.
This has the potential to be linked to the development to add widget dashboards to Koha under the new VueJS framework - the first example being the ERM widgets dashboard on the module landing page. https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=39320
I was not aware of this bug! Yes please do take a look at bug 39320, it is exactly this but at a module (ERM) level. It does, however, lay the ground work and foundations to very easily develop a 'main' dashboard with any and all (available) widgets a staff member may wish to have.
That would be awesome!