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

Mon Feb 7 23:22:17 CET 2011

Le dimanche 6 février 2011 23:23:43, Fabrice Facorat a écrit :
+> 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
+> 
+> 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.
+> What about using instead rpm categories, and then display theses kind
+> of information in the package infos
+
+At the moment, I don't plan to put the different distribution releases in the 
+left menu. In mageia-app-db, you browse one release at a time, which is 
+already the case in version 0.1 : http://88.191.121.20/madb/master/
+(in fact, you can browse packages from several releases at a time, but that's 
+not the standard use case).
+Here is how we will determine what release to show by default to you :
+- if you are logged in and defined a preferred release (version 1, "latest 
+stable" version, cauldron...), then it's used
+- else, we will try to detect what release your system has, from your user 
+agent
+- and in last resort (not logged in, cleaned user agent or browsing from 
+another system), the default is the latest stable release (this is the current 
+behaviour).
+
+And you can switch from one version to the other by the filter in the banner 
+(it will likely look like simple dropdown, or something else simple to use).
+
+Samuel
+