Nobody had any objections, so I went ahead and made the change in: https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/hg/ubiquity-firefox/rev/e8dd9933ae88 If you want any of these commands, you can get them back by subscribing to the Experimental Commands feed. The link is on the "Hack Ubiquity" page -- issue the command "hack", then scroll to the bottom and find the "experimental commands" link on the bottom left.
--Jono On Jun 17, 1:46 am, Jono <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > When going through all the commands to convert them to parser 2 / > overlord-verbs style, I noticed there are some commands in our standard > feeds which are: > 1. implemented in a really hacky way, and/or > 2. not well maintained, and/or > 3. seldom used, and/or > 4. using an interface pattern that is wildly inconsistent with the rest of > Ubiquity > > I propose we take some of these commands out of the standard feeds, for > now. They don't have to be gone forever; they can be moved to optional > feeds, which users can choose to subscribe to, until such time as they get > some love and attention from developers to bring them up to standards. > > I think that including a command in the standard feeds should be, if not a > guarantee, at least a vote of confidence from us that the command > implementation is high quality and the interface is consistent with the rest > of Ubiquity. I think the release will be a better product if there are > slightly fewer commands together with a greater average level of polish on > those commands. > > Commands that I nominate for un-inclusion are: > > * The entire image-editing command feed. (Feels like it needs a rethink and > some major design work in order to present a good interface) > * "convert text to format". (I don't think I've ever seen it actually work) > * "map these" (it was a proof-of-concept, demoware if you will, and I'm > pretty sure it only works on Craigslist.) > * "ask rypple" (It uses a very un-ubiquity-like interface, with magic > characters to specify its arguments, and besides it is available > here:http://www.rypple.com/ubiquity/ask.html) > * "sparkline" (It's cool, but I don't think anybody knows what it's for, > other than an interesting demo) > > Remember, I'm not proposing they be destroyed -- just moved out to optional > feeds. > > Does anybody disagree, and think one or more of these commands should be > kept in the default feeds? If so, will anyone offer to work on that command > to hep bring it up to speed? > > Are there other commands people think should be un-included? > > Thanks for your input, > --Jono, Mozilla Labs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
