Hi Matthias, As usual, thanks for your critical and useful feedback, that's how we can make Elisa better with every release (at least we try hard :)).
Matthias Saou wrote: > Hi, > > I'm really glad to see some new plugins appear... the weather plugin > is back! Yeah :) I have very little time to spare for this one as it is not a really high priority task, but I already have a todo list and any bug reports or feature requests are welcome at http://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa-plugin-weather. > Now for some feedback : > > * There is no direct access in the first menu to a list of plugins which > don't fit in the main categories (music, videos, pictures). Accessing > through the plugins menu is "okay", but in this case I really think > that the menu should be reorganized so that "Plugin Collection" is > first and "Find New Plugins" second (it's currently the other way > around, maybe "optimal" for developers but not for users ;-)) Yes, that's a real issue. We took your suggestion and the plugin collection (now renamed "Plugin Library" for consistency) is now first, before "Find New Plugins". > * This is going to be a tricky one : There seems to be no way to > include python module dependency installation in the plugins. If you > don't have pymetar already installed, then when choosing "Download & > Install" for the weather plugin, nothing visible happens. Bad user > experience : No feedback at all, user thinks it's "broken". It would be > great if it was somehow possible to give feedback about the missing > module(s), as if at least "pymetar" is displayed to the user, he can > search for that in his package manager (apt, yum, synaptic, whatever), > get it installed and try again. This is a very hairy problem as we want to support other OSes that don't really understand the concept of software packages and dependencies (such as Windows). On top of that the average user doesn't have admin rights and won't be able to install dependencies anyway. The current (easy) solution is to ship external dependencies with the plugins (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+bug/301778). Thus the weather plugin is now shipping pymetar. > This was just some quick feedback. Overall 0.5.19 seems really nice, > congratulations to all of the team! Thanks again :) > Matthias Olivier
