[Mageia-dev] New mockups about mageia-app-db

Donald Stewart watersnowrock at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 11:24:09 CET 2011


On 6 February 2011 23:17, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/2/6 Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it>:
>>> 2011/2/6 Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it>:
>>> >> 2011/2/6 Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it>:
>>>
>>> >> > homepage: http://img209.imageshack.us/i/mageiafindouthomepage.jpg/
>>> >> > browsing page:
>> http://img696.imageshack.us/i/mageiafindoutbrowsingpa.jpg/
>>> >>
>>> >> sorry but who is supposed to use mageia-app-db ? power users ? dev ?
>>> >> casual/normal users ?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Samuel said that the application must be useful both for newbies and power
>>> > users
>>>
>>> ok for power users, but for normal users the Ui is too cluttered
>>
>> [remember that this is only a first mockup made by me (the developer is
>> Samuel), my goal is to provide to him all the most interesting infos and ideas
>> to develop the app as best as possible.]
>>
>>> 1. left pane : Release Alpha vs Cauldron ? for a normal user, this
>>> means pretty nothing. If the user is looking for an
>>> application/package, then don't talk about release or repositories.
>>
>> well, if you have mandriva installed, do you think you don't know what release
>> is? alpha release vs. cauldron could be "Mageia 2011" and "Mageia 2012"
>
> whereas eventually I may know about release ( Mageia 2011 ), I may not
> know about updates/backports/testing/....
> What's the point fo browsing by release ? It's an application
> database, so you should browse by applications.
>
>>> What about using instead rpm categories, and then display theses kind
>>> of information in the package infos
>>
>> do you mean showing only "amarok" field and when you get into it you'll
>> download different versions depending on the release installed? it can be an
>> interesting idea.
>
> first I see the main categories : Office, Sound & Video, Tools, ...
> Then the sub-category and then the application :
> Sound & Video -> Sound -> Amarok
> The left pane should only show categories, the application list will
> be displayed in the center pane.
>
> See tthe way you navigate in this :
> http://download.cnet.com/windows/mp3-and-audio-software/?tag=rb_content;contentNav
>
>>> 2. right pane : Alpha vs Beta ?
>>
>> also here, i mean something like this: "Mageia 2011" and "Mageia 2012"
>
> this won't scale when you will have more and more release, except if
> you plan to show only 2 releases, and so to support a mandriva release
> only during 2 releases cycles.
>
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>

I like the ratings and the "news" about new packages on the right,
however the centre pane is a little cluttered, maybe if the info there
was put into topics with turn down boxes it would make it clearer and
cleaner as the information is a little distracting atm.

Donald.


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