On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ian Clatworthy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
FWIW, Alex Lourie <[email protected]> and ajmctaggart <[email protected]> have been discussing similar things on the Ayatana list. Also, Rick Spencer has been working on a desktop bug management program called Bughugger -- https://launchpad.net/bughugger. Perhaps there is some scope for working together :) 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
