<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta content="Group-Office 2.18" name="GENERATOR"></head><body><p>> ...I'd rather have it as<br />
> a search box that does the right thing (see<br />
> http://impressive.net/services/dtrt/). Some things I'd like to see:</p>
<p>That was actually my original idea (although I didn't explain it). It may, in fact, be a limitation of Midgard, though.</p>
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<strong>Subject: </strong>Re: maemo.org redesign<br />
<strong>From: </strong>Thomas Perl <thp@perli.net><br />
<strong>To: </strong>maemo-community@maemo.org<br />
<strong>CC: </strong>"Tim" <tim@samoff.com>,"List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
<strong>Date: </strong>10/10/2008 6:42 am<br />
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Hi there!<br />
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:15:31 -0600<br />
Tim <tim@samoff.com> wrote:<br />
> Any thoughts on the new rev (my comments below)? <br />
><br />
> http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0008e.png[1]<br />
> http://samoff.maemobox.org/maemo_redesign/samoff-maemo.org-redesign_idea_0008e-supp.png[2]<br />
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Although Quim has said he wanted a drop-down box, I'd rather have it as<br />
a search box that does the right thing (see<br />
http://impressive.net/services/dtrt/). Some things I'd like to see:<br />
<br />
* Entering just a number takes me to the bug page on bugs.maemo.org<br />
* Entering an exact product name brings me to the product page (but<br />
having an option on that product page to search for posts, wiki pages,<br />
etc.. for that product, because if i enter a product name, i might<br />
want to see wiki pages, etc.. related to that)<br />
* Entering an exact wiki page title brings me to the wiki page (e.g.<br />
"uploading to extras" brings me to the "Uploading_to_Extras" page)<br />
* Entering an exact username brings me to the profile page (again, with<br />
a link there to do a full-text search)<br />
* Entering a function name brings up the documentation page for it (e.g.<br />
I enter "HildonVolumebar" or "hildon_program_get_instance" and it<br />
opens up the api docs for that class/function)<br />
<br />
Alternatively to adding an option to do a full-text search to each<br />
entity (project, user, etc..), we could have two buttons (see wikipedia<br />
for an example, they have "article" and "full-text"), one that does the<br />
right thing as described above and one that defaults to full-text<br />
search.<br />
<br />
Of course, there might be technical constraints, but from the point of<br />
view of a user and developer, I'd like to go to maemo.org, quickly get<br />
what I want (user info, project info, developer docs, bug report) and<br />
be done with it. I don't want to "learn" the structure (see second<br />
screenshot) of maemo.org, I want to get to the stuff I need _right_now_<br />
and I want to get there fast. Still, if I use it often, and want to<br />
"learn" it a bit more, having that search box do things like above is<br />
very cool and easy to learn.<br />
<br />
Also, the affordance of such a white box in the top right of a web page<br />
is "type text and search away", not "select a category". See these<br />
pages and think about what the white box in the top right corner does<br />
(no particular order or reason for picking these, just thinking of<br />
some more prominent company/project web sites):<br />
<br />
http://www.redhat.com/<br />
http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx<br />
http://www.nokia.at/<br />
http://www.gnu.org/<br />
http://www.freebsd.org/<br />
http://slashdot.org/<br />
<br />
Putting a drop-down box there isn't a good solution, in my opinion.<br />
<br />
<br />
thp<br />
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