On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Matthias Clasen<mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:36 +0200, drago01 wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Toshio Kuratomi<a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On 08/23/2009 10:50 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> > >> >> Aren't we pitching Fedora Community interface as the end user facing >> >> thing, going forward? It seems some of these features will overlap or >> >> duplicate it. >> >> >> > It's possible. The packagedb is going to be the backend for the Fedora >> > Community Front end so it had to get written this summer so that work on >> > the front-end can proceed. >> >> For the front-end to be end user suitable it should: >> >> * List applications rather than packages >> * Group them >> * Provide some kind of rating system to show "best rated" or "most downloaded" >> * Use the application icon if it has one >> * Make use of the packagekit browser plugin for installation >> >> But just letting the user search for random packages should not be the >> goal imho. > > > Very good points. I very much agree that a list of applications is what > we want here. Fedora Community is not really filling that niche, since > is very much focused on the 'project' aspect of Fedora. > > In fact, I have been toying with the idea to make a 'Cool applications > for Fedora' style page, using the PackageKit browser plugin. A very > crude test of the idea can be seen here: > > http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/Screenshot-Applications%20for% > 20Fedora.png Yeah looks good but I would rather not show screenshots in this view (or atleast not different sized ones). A short description + icon should be enough. Have a "show more" link that contains a longer description + screenshots and a "Install Now" link. Pretty much like it is done in Apples Appstore > This obviously needs the helping hand of a web designer. > > For F12, this would probably be not much more than a static web page. Static? Doesn't scale (unless you would want to do it just for specific apps) > Rating and similar ideas described in > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplicationInstaller will > come later. mockup links are dead. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
