Re: [Fofredux-devel] Interface Design

[Andrew T. (nilspace) <nil...@us...>]

Thanks for the info Katie - perhaps my screenshot with "A Christmas
Gory" also gives an icky feeling. :) I'll get a more happy/better
looking screenshot.

But this is a very good point. Hopefully Khaled comes up with some
nice design ideas.

What about "themeability". Of course, it's all CSS and *hopefully*
XHTML compliant (though I haven't checked), so themeability is "free".
We should just come up with some examples, etc.

But That doesn't address the overall navigation button/links which are
growing rather large and scary looking. Gregarious uses tabs in the
sidebar for selecting b/w Feed/Tags/Categories,. and generic top-line
button bars.

How much do we want to pull from other newsreaders? Any other
suggestions? Bueller? :)

Andrew

On 2/17/06, Katie Bechtold <ka...@ho...> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:18:13PM -0500, Andrew Turner wrote:
> > We definitely appreciate and welcome input for FoFRedux. I agree that
> > the interface is getting a little mucky as we add more features. And
> > our roadmap calls for more features that will need better placement,
> > layout, etc.
>
> One of the weblogs I read had a post earlier this week asking for a
> feed reader recommendation: http://joeshaw.org/2006/02/13/378
> I was one of several respondents, and naturally I suggested
> FoFRedux.
>
> Today there's an update wherein the author describes his experiences
> trying out each of the suggestions: http://joeshaw.org/2006/02/17/379
>
> Here's what he had to say about FoFRedux:
> "FoF Redux - I didn't even try this. It has the scariest [link to
> http://fofredux.sourceforge.net/images/ViewFrames.jpg]
> user-interface I've ever seen in a feed reader. I'm a tech guy,
> I'm a hacker, but these days I just don't want to deal with
> complicated software anymore."
>
> I'm sharing this here not to try to drum up a campaign to change
> this guy's mind about FoFRedux, but rather to show what a potential
> user thinks when he sees our user interface.  It's that bad.
>
> --
> Katie Bechtold         http://hoteldetective.org/
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