Martin Pilkington wrote: > Hey all, > > Following on from my previous email about minor improvements that could be > made to Launchpad, I started playing around with more drastic redesigns. > While doing this a thought occurred to me about what Launchpad actually is. > At the moment the user interface is a website, but in reality Launchpad is > quite a complex application. As such is may be nearly impossible to try and > make a great user interface for it if you try to work from the base of > building a high end website. A better approach would be to build it as a > fully fledged application.
I'll hold my judgment in reserve on "better" -- but "different" and "interesting" I'll grant :) > I'm proposing building an alternative UI for Launchpad using the Cappuccino > framework. Due to the Launchpad API, this could be a completely separate > project and could be provided as an alternative UI. As a completely separate > project focused purely on UI, it would allow for a much more unified and > consistent UI, which will hopefully end up being easier to use. It will also > work more like a fully fledged application, allowing for a more powerful and > potentially more customisable user interface. Allowing this kind of experiment is certainly one of the reasons the API is interesting :) > I will likely start working on this over christmas or in the new year, but it > was suggested I post here to see if anyone else would be interested in > contributing. I don't have time really, but I would say that yours is not the first such attempt. http://leonov.tv/ was another but it seems to have stalled. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
