@Andreas First; thank your for this creation!
Here is some feedback: - I don't think the "Create New Plugin" button/content should be under the tab "Installed Plugins" but instead warrants a tab of its own. - As someone new in the plugin packers business, I am a bit uncertain what happens to my original tiddlers. It seems they are fully replaced with the created plugin. This makes it difficult to make changes and I would strongly prefer that the original tiddlers were left intact. - "*Plugin title*" appeared clear... until I read *(full "path")*. I suggest using the same technique used in the standard "New Tiddler", i.e add a faint gray "disappear-on-type" instruction in the text field saying perhaps "*e.g $:/.../myPlugin*". (...if this, in deed, is what you mean). - ...further, I propose moving "*Name:*" to first position in list, then "*Plugin title*" and then "*Author*". - For "*Plugin type*" I would love to get a drop down menu with predefined suggestions in addition to the possibility to make up a type. I propose "predefined suggestions" as part of a greater "community issue" to standardize denominations and terminology for the coming Federation. I'm guessing this will become important then in order to find things (or am I wrong?) Your whole plugin packer already does a wonderful job for creating a standard for the meta data labels (e.g "Author" as opposed to "Creator", "Plugin-maker" etc), not to mention the fact that your plugin encourages people to actually add this data to begin with. - "Description"; It is not unlikely that the plugin author finds the plugin to be more "obvious" than the later users. For this reason it is, IMO, desirable to really encourage the author to describe it properly, and the current field is IMO too small for this. (An option would perhaps be a field with "*Link to documentation*" or some such.) - "Version"; do I understand it right that typing in "1" or "0.1" should automatically be converted to "0.01"? (I made my first plugin the other day and proudly tried to set it to version 1.0 but this was converted. Maybe there are standards for versioning that I'm not aware of?) Your creation is what I classify as "infrastructure for sharing" - extremely important for the TW project IMO. It is worth considering that there is, for sure, a lot of brilliant stuff created in the TiddlyVerse that is never shared because it is a bit of exrtra work to do so. To absolutely minimize this barrier must be one of the most important things we can do. ...This is why I, in a recent hangout, tried to propose that your plugin packer or similar becomes part of the standard distribution. I mistakenly referred to the latter as "core" which I feel confused my proposal. I understand people feel differently about this, but here's a thought; would it be possible to make your packer so that it could be included on tw.com, as a service *there*? I.e so that a user could e.g drag or otherwise import tiddlers his own tiddlers into it and get a plugin in return to drag back to his own TW... or even upload directly from tw.com to e.g a tiddlyspot? Ok, again, thank you so much for this Andreas. <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a5e77ae2-3978-4f4b-a52d-afaca54a0888%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
