My name is Plugus Aycius Decius, commander of the plugins of the north, general of the cross-platform legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Cordovus. And I will have my vengeance, in this version or the next.
-----Original Message----- From: Wargo, John [mailto:john.wa...@sap.com] Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2013 12:20 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: RE: plugins.cordova.io: UX redesign And his real given name is Plugmanus? Plugmanus Cordovus? -----Original Message----- From: brian.ler...@gmail.com [mailto:brian.ler...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Brian LeRoux Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:39 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Cc: Yohei Shimomae Subject: Re: plugins.cordova.io: UX redesign I vote that we call him Plugman (But his friends call him Pluggy =) On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome, love Pluggy(?) the robot. > > Some comments if I may: > 1. Plugin Details - maintainers should be linkable, so we can go to a > list of their authored packages (like npmjs) 2. Plugin Details - not > sure if we want "previous versions" here. npmjs does this by appending > the version to the url, but this is not discoverable > easily: eg https://npmjs.org/package/ios-sim --> > https://npmjs.org/package/ios-sim/1.8.0 . Ideally we want the user to > always grab the latest, but there will be cases where they might want > to grab an older one for compatibility reasons, and they might not > know how, even through the command line 3. Plugin Details - I assume > the Readme here is just pulled from the Readme.md of the plugin > package (like npmjs) - that will be great if so > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Joni Rustulka <j...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm Joni. I work at Adobe as a UX designer on the PhoneGap team, and > > I have recently thrown some time at redesigning the > > http://plugins.cordova.io site. I'm looking for feedback prior to > > implementation - your thoughts are appreciated. > > > > The main screens that have been reworked are as follows: > > > > > > 1. Home (http://cl.ly/image/2n3l1N0Z0g0w) The primary goal for > > the site is to help users find the plugins they > need. > > As such, the main focus is on search/findability. > > > > 2. Search Results (http://cl.ly/image/0c3X3T1E1L0j) Upon search > > for a plugin, the user is returned results. The user can filter to > > include only desired platforms ( > http://cl.ly/image/3W2f321I211r), > > and the results table can be sorted by number of downloads, or plugin ID. > > > > 3. Plugin Details (http://cl.ly/image/2n1p2s3E0a2t) The details > > screen intends to provide all of the necessary information on a > > plugin. > > ** From what I understand, one piece of information that may be > > missing from this screen is "Installation Instructions". This being, > > config.xml feature tags. Is this something that you guys plan to > > automate, or should we be telling plugin authors to put this information in their Read Me? > > Please advise. > > > > Further, we do intend to make this a responsive site - so it will be > > easily viewed on smaller screen sizes. > > > > Thanks for your input, > > -joni > > > > > > PS - big thanks and kudos to Yohei for putting together the pluggy robot! > > > > > > >
