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.
Hi Martin, Those mockups were great! Thanks for putting these together. > 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. > > 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'm also planning to experiment over xmas with making Bazaar Explorer a better "LP desktop client". The integration with LP code hosting and merge proposals is pretty nice now[1] but there's plenty of scope for making the workflow even smoother IMO. My focus will be on adding value over the current feature set rather than on porting browser-based functionality to a desktop app. For example, I'd like to make it easy for users to create "assistants" or "dashboards" so they can see at a glance (and action) stuff like: * unanswered questions * new bugs * merge proposals for a batch of projects they care about. I'd like these to be soft-coded in an xml file so others can build whatever assistants/dashboards interest them. launchpadlib will be key to providing this magic. If any of this sounds interesting to you, I'd love to hear/see your thoughts on useful assistants/dashboards, particuarly for new users. Ian C. [1] http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/explorer/en/tutorials/foss-contribute.html _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
