On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Martin Pilkington <[email protected]> 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'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.
Hi Martin, As Michael says, the Launchpad API was intended to enable experiments like these. However, were I you, I would be seriously considering working to improve the existing UI, rather than creating my own. Changing the UI of Launchpad.net might be a little harder and a less fun than writing a new application, but it does give you an instant, large user-base and a sizable body of developers. It also means that whatever improvements you make are shared with the entire Launchpad community. Regards, jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
