The pencil icon does display a drop-down menu - see screenshot attached with the icon inspected in Firebug
In page view the menu contains only a refresh link, in the macro browser it contains both a refresh and edit link. Confluence is removing the edit link from the page view by design, as its convention is gadgets should only be editable in the macro browser.
However, because Bamboo gadgets render the pencil drop down menu outside the iframe in both page view and the macro browser, none of the menu items are accessible to users.
This is not a problem in JIRA as Scott H implemented a mechanism to move the edit link to the gadget chrome.
This is not a problem for other gadgets in Confluence, because according to Chris Kiehl, the latest version of atlassian gadgets includes javascript to detect the size of the iframe and render the menu inside it.
Therefore updating to the Bamboo gadgets to the latest version of Atlassian Gadgets should resolve this issue and allow users to edit these gadgets.
The pencil icon does display a drop-down menu - see screenshot attached with the icon inspected in Firebug
In page view the menu contains only a refresh link, in the macro browser it contains both a refresh and edit link. Confluence is removing the edit link from the page view by design, as its convention is gadgets should only be editable in the macro browser.
However, because Bamboo gadgets render the pencil drop down menu outside the iframe in both page view and the macro browser, none of the menu items are accessible to users.
This is not a problem in JIRA as Scott H implemented a mechanism to move the edit link to the gadget chrome.
This is not a problem for other gadgets in Confluence, because according to Chris Kiehl, the latest version of atlassian gadgets includes javascript to detect the size of the iframe and render the menu inside it.
Therefore updating to the Bamboo gadgets to the latest version of Atlassian Gadgets should resolve this issue and allow users to edit these gadgets.