Help designing the evolve UI
Angel Ezquerra
angel.ezquerra at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 07:16:54 UTC 2014
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Pierre-Yves David
<pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 04/15/2014 01:12 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>
>> So, I have started a wiki page to discuss the design of Evolve:
>>
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EvolveUI
>>
>> Please add to this page with whatever additions. concerns or ideas or
>> suggestions you may have for the Evolve UI.
>
>
> 1. I would like to thank Jordi for starting this discussion. The UX is an
> important part of evolution and I've barely any time to devote to it yet.
>
> 2. The goal of this pages is to sum-up main argument, proposal, use case for
> various subjects. We need something with more structure. Something like:
>
> * Glossary,
> * Existing Commands
> * Summary of existing commands and alias
> * One section per command//action
> * Quick reminder of the command//action role and spirit
> * Discuss for name change
> * Discuss flag names
> * Behavior: all topic related to changes/improvement of behavior
> * One section per topic
> * Quick summary of the issue
> * Summary table of options
> * Detailed behavior and arguments for each options
> * User case
> * one section per use-case that needs improvement.
>
> On a general basis: this page also needs more tables and less walls of text.
>
> Some organized way to attach names to proposal (and votes) would be nice
>
> 3. The goal of any discussion on this list is to get material to fill this
> page. Then we can take proper decision later. Please update it whenever a
> good argument/proposal/use case show up.
>
> 4. This email thread is not the alpha and omega of evolve UI discussions.
> The discussion is too big to fit in a single discussion. This thread is
> -already- too big. Please scavenge any good elements from it to update the
> list. Spawn a new threads on a restricted topic if you want to discuss
> something further.(And make sure to limit your rate if you want other
> peoples to follow).
>
> 5. No, we are not going to decide to automatically evolve everything all the
> time. The step by step approach is very valuable and I would like every
> early user to discover that before trying to do anything else.
Is this completely ruled out our just for now?
Cheers,
Angel
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