On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org>wrote:
> On Monday 08 February 2010 21:49:37 Ian Clarke wrote: > > I think by "casual" we are referring to people who want to search for and > > retrieve content, upload and share content, and participate in > discussions. > > We are not referring to Freenet developers and testers, who will > probably > > need to continue to use FProxy. > > I strongly object to this. We do not want to have two completely different > interfaces with two completely different looks and feels, and with a jarring > change when you go from one to the other. > If the requirement is that the new UI entirely replicate the functionality of FProxy on day one, then I can promise you - we'll never get a new UI. It has to be a gradual process of migrating functionality. > And who decides what is casual use anyway? We start with the most common use-cases and support those, and then over time we add other functionality. > Casual users in mainline China for example will need to be able to add > Friends, and set the security levels. Yes, obviously this functionality will be a high priority. > And we cannot afford to not ask people: the first-time wizard will have to > remain in place, and IMHO so will some visible indication of security level > (preferably via means of easily understood color coded icons, with brief > explanations in tooltips or dropdowns). Casual users interested in > censorship resistant blogging (IMHO an important demographic) will need to > be able to make a blog using FlogHelper. Anyone who uses Freetalk to chat > will need to be able to set trust levels (although this does not necessarily > mean we need the Community menu). And so on. > Its a question of prioritization. We can't do everything on day one. > And nothing in the PDF actually requires GWT so far. Nothing requires GWT, it could all be done in Javascript. GWT makes development much faster and easier though. > A two tier system where the advanced tier looks completely different will > not meet diverse needs, it will segregate advanced users from everyone else > and put people off making the transition. > A two tier system is a temporary requirement to avoid having to replicate all of fproxy's functionality on day one. As I said, if the new UI has to do that, we'll never have a new UI. > Apart from messages, there is the question of where is the rest of the > functionality? > As I said in my original email, these mockups are "(very) preliminary". I don't see the blogging tool as a requirement for day one (since AFAIK its not even currently implemented in fproxy). All of the other things you mention will be integrated into the design in due-course. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: i...@sensearray.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588
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