On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Pavel Roschin roshin@scriptumplus.ruwrote:
Hello!
There are some inconveniences in current plugin manager window:
- plugin description is too long and is hard to read because of window
width
- too many actions user need to perform to get access to plugin settings
- no plugin search feature
- too many windows: settings - window, keybindings - window, help - window
+1 current plugin manager window can be improved.
I tried to make some sort of concept of plugin manager interface design. Maybe you will find it interesting: http://pbrd.co/1jBUM4f
Alternative (move description to bottom): http://pbrd.co/1jBUOJh
I personally prefer the first, but both are good solutions.
I offer:
- add search field
0 for now not very necessary
- remove unnecessary labels
- remove plugin description from list
- show plugin description as tooltip or show it in status bar
-1 Maybe it could be moved under the plugin/authors/filename, it's essential to understand what the plugin does...
- show plugin settings immediately
- show plugin keybindings as tab where user can check keybindings _only_
for this plugin
- show help as a tab (of course there should be API for help window with
rich text, maybe show readme)
+1
Any suggestions?
-- Best regards, Pavel Roschin aka RPG _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel