Hi,
On Wed 23 Apr 2014 20:58:07 CEST,
Pavel Roschin <ros...@scriptumplus.ru> wrote:
Hello!
There are some inconveniences in current plugin manager window:
- plugin description is too long and is hard to read because of window width
- too many actions user need to perform to get access to plugin settings
- no plugin search feature
- too many windows: settings - window, keybindings - window, help - window
I agree with your all your points, though I don't think the search too
important, as there are usually not too many plugins.
I tried to make some sort of concept of plugin manager interface design. Maybe
you will find it interesting:
http://pbrd.co/1jBUM4f
Alternative (move description to bottom):
http://pbrd.co/1jBUOJh
Looks nice, I like the second one better.
I offer:
- add search field
- remove unnecessary labels
- remove plugin description from list
- show plugin description as tooltip or show it in status bar
- show plugin settings immediately
- show plugin keybindings as tab where user can check keybindings _only_ for
this plugin
- show help as a tab (of course there should be API for help window with rich
text, maybe show readme)
Any suggestions?
I think the plugin description as a tooltip is a better solution than in
the status bar as some descriptions are quite long.
In your second layout there might be space at the right bottom for a
multi-line widget for this.
Cheers,
Johannes
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