Talk:Preware Design

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Replacing wiki pages?

Is this going to replace the application pages in this wiki? I think it should. —X1011 22:31, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

This has not been decided yet, but in all odds it eventually will. --Templarian 03:18, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

protection

Page is now unprotected and moved to the application name space.rboatright 04:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

why is this page protected? I think we should follow wikipedia:WP:NO-PREEMPT. —X1011 22:31, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Quality control by sysops. --Templarian 22:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

are you saying that only sysops are capable of quality?

also, it says it's a discussion page. how can it be if it's protected?

—X1011 07:30, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I forgot to unprotect the preware page when I moved it -- sorry rboatright

XML feeds

instead of <firmware>:

   <min>1.0.3</min>
   <max>1.1</max>

</webOSVersion> </source>

maintainer:

   <name>John Doe</name>
   <email>email@domain.com</email>

</maintainer> </source>

should a category have an id? everything else does.
in the review, you have the type in the message tag, but in the comment, you have it in the messages tag.
<comment> should be <text> or <body>
in <comment>, what do you mean by 'split it somewhere'?
does preware.org/feed/xml/type/ have a meaning? if not, we should use:

<source lang='text'> preware.org/feed/xml/application/23/ preware.org/feed/xml/plugin/23/ </source>

—X1011 09:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

- Agreed with all suggestions in this section, and they are now reflected in the article. --Templarian 02:33, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

For "preware.org/feed/xml/application/23/" since it shares id's, couldn't it just be "/xml/23/". --Templarian

GUI Addition: Version# and Changelog

Idea: Add a small "Details" or "+" button on the app and plugins pages. It can go at the end of the description, or possibly to the right of the very large "Install/Delete" button. It may not be wanted though. I know we don't want to show version numbers on the app page, but I'd love to have some way to access the version number and changelog from within the Preware app, even if its semi-hidden. I read the results of Rick's papercraft gui study, and agree with a lot of the comments, but I still feel like this is something that would be helpful to have available somewhere in the app, even if it isn't immediately obvious how to get to it (since its not something that is necessarily required by the average user). --Zinge 02:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Changes reflected in the Preware Application mockup image. --Templarian 02:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Looks good, but we may want to change the "list" icon to something that look less like "go back to the app list". My suggestions are- are lowercase "i" or the "+" symbol. Any better ideas? --Zinge 02:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

lowercase i is the correct icon, I changed it to reflect that in the mockup. --Templarian 03:11, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

button resizing

For the first screenshot I think it would be best if we made it so that the buttons resize. No scrolling in any form even if there notifications below it. --Templarian

License id

Do you think we should put the versions next to all of them to be consistent? --Templarian 02:33, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

what is the purpose of having a license id? —X1011 04:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Since the Preware app is listed for Open Source projects it was mentioned it would be nice to have it listed on the information button (which may be moved to a drop down at the right of the top title). Really treating the info screen as the information normal users do not care about seeing immediately. The license id is just a standard id that will never change. --Templarian 14:12, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

are you saying the name of a license is likely to change? i doubt that. if you must have a license id, though, just make it a number like all the other ids. —X1011 04:35, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Yea, probably change that to a number sometime. --Templarian 05:29, 6 August 2009 (UTC)