On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Pavel Roschin <roshin@scriptumplus.ru> wrote:
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
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