Ian Clarke skrev: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:05 AM, xor <xor at gmx.li <mailto:xor at gmx.li>> > wrote: > > We DO NOT need a new web interface. Our current web interface is easy to > use, works well, is sufficient, and it is also easy to write plugins > which > use it - I've worked with it for WoT and Freetalk and it was fun. > > > I hope this is true, but I'm skeptical. I'd recomend getting some > non-techies to try Freenet, without guidance from you, and to point out > anything in the web interface that doesn't make sense. I'd like to > think that they won't find anything to point to, but I doubt it :-) > > We're all steeped in a pretty good understanding of Freenet, and the > terminology used, but newbies aren't. A term that makes perfect sense > to us, such as Matthew's use of the term "node" in the progress page, is > likely to confuse newbies. > > I think to create a good UI, we need to mistrust our personal > perceptions of what makes sense, because, frankly, we aren't our target > audience. I'd encourage everyone to find newbies whenever possible, and > watch them install and try to use Freenet, reporting any issues they run > into to this list, or as bugs. Get them to give you a narrative of what > they see ("not sure what that button does" or "hmm, not sure what I'm > supposed to do now"), and report it. Anything you need to explain to > them is a *bug*, because most of our future users won't have you sitting > there to explain it. > > I'd prefer to avoid a ground-up redesign of the UI too, but for anyone > that wants to work on the UI, please grab a friend or relative > unfamiliar with Freenet, and watch them trying to install or use it. > > Ian.
Random comment from me: As far as I know (I might be wrong - if so, please correct me) it is nearly impossible to mod fproxy without digging into java code. I still think it would be a good idea to have a theming engine, or at the very least an easily available CSS file so people actually *can* work on fproxy design without having to recompile the whole thing. - Zero3
