Yo, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi Matthew > > (Would you mind/prefer if we continued this discussion in public on > software-store-developers@? Just in case anyone else wants to help out.) > No problem, I'll include the list in my reply! :) > Matthew McGowan wrote on 27/07/11 00:53: > >... > >> - - Sorry, this is a mistake in the wireframes: "All Software" and > >> "Installed" should be dual menubuttons, i.e. a button with a menu > >> next to it, where the menu opens left-aligned with the button (like > >> the New Document menubutton at the top left of a LibreOffice document > >> window). That way, just clicking on "All Software" takes you straight > >> back to the home screen; it's only if you click the triangle that you > >> get the geeky list of sources. > > > > Yep, wasn't sure how these were meant to behave, this i can rework. > > My fault entirely. I've made this clearer now, with a sketch and test > case. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#navigation-bar> > > > I > > am also keen to try make these into an Gtk.Action's but thats an > > implementation detail. > > I guess turning them into Gtk.Actions would make it easier to implement > the "Go" menu. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Menus> But that's > a low priority compared with the rest of the UI. :-) > > > OT: I wonder if PPA's couldn't be exposed in the > > lobby itself, perhaps beneath the Departments list? > > They could. That could substantially lengthen that box, which would in > turn affect the height of the "What's New" area next to it (and > eventually the "Recommended For You" area, once it's implemented), which > would mean the number of new/recommended items people saw by default > would depend on how many PPAs they had. That's kind of a feeble reason > not to do it, though... > Perhaps a better reason is that when you add a PPA, it's usually because > you're installing one thing from it immediately -- and once you've done > that, you don't visit it any more, you keep it just for automatic > updates. So they don't deserve much real estate. > You raise good points > > That could work. The main use case I'm concerned with is this: You see > an interesting banner, but it flips to the next one just before you have > time to click it. How do you get it back? We could do paging dots (like > on <http://www.canonical.com/> right now), but I think something that > shows a snippet of all the banners all the time would be more obvious. > Maybe there are other ways to do it? > Perhaps a thumbnail when hovering a paging dot? Banners seem to me like something passive rather than demanding interaction. Cheers, Matt -- >From the mind of me!
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