erland;361622 Wrote: > Sorting by author doesn't make much sense for me but showing the author > for each plugin directly in a list is a good idea. As long as author is > shown in the list, you can always use the search function in the web > browser to find plugins from the same author even though they aren't > sorted by author.
If the page used a tabular layout, you could use a Javascript library to let the user sort the table at will. I'd suggest columns plugin name, repo URL, author, date modified (would need to be added to the XML). My PlayLog demo HTML shows one Javascript client-sorting library: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/playlog-demo/songlist.html > As already suggested, some kind of categorization might be suitable. > Personally I don't like the categorization we have on the wiki today, > almost everything is under the "Audio" section and the stuff that isn't > is sometimes a bit hard to find. However, as long as it is possible to > select if you like to see the list "by name" or "by category" it might > be nice with some kind of categorization. > The problem with categorization is to figure out the best categories. > It might be easier if a plugin can be assigned to several categories > but this might also result in more complex solution. Categorizing is a beast. I think a search mechanism would be good, especially if the normal interface doesn't use room to make the full descriptions visible. For now, searching the names & DESC elements. Perhaps later we could add a localized keywords element. Or, in the wiki + central repo model, perhaps allow wiki users to tag plugins. As I've said before, this mechanism is ripe for centralized data gathering. Even if a user is pulling XML and ZIPs from googlecode, it's possible that the downloader could send some info to the mothership. This'd give us the ability to report relative popularity of plugins -- which would be likely not only to help users find good code, but also help Logitech see what users want their hardware to do for them. Yes, there are privacy issues. Erland, I like the idea of the downloader keeping track of previously installed plugins. It's not a 100% solution (what if the exact version you used earlier is no longer available through the main repo?), but probably 98%. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54805 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
