Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] e.x.o improvements: grid, icons, colors

Hi Caty, Nice! I have some comments: * You dropped the concept of “Recommended” extension which provided an interesting definition which is lost and there’s no longer a way for users to view Extensions that match a quality criteria. “Top Extensions” is not about quality but about how many persons have installed an extension (they don’t even need to use it. * You said “top sponsoring companies”. However there’s only one. See http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Governance * You used “Top Extensions”. I think it would be more accurate to say something like “Most Installed Extensions”. * In the search you show a “Price” facet but this won’t be easy to implement because only free apps are available on e.x.o and indexing other repos would mean some custom solr index/system and I think that’s probably too complex to do. * I’d like to keep the LT view. ** It provides a much nicer view when you need to filter and find extensions - it’s harder to find what you need if your eyes need to travel horizontally and vertically. ** And doing a search will be a lot slower and refresh the page. ** It scales less well since you need to click on the next page to view more. * One idea is to have the “Search” page as a Browse page and have two ways of displaying it (either a LT view or a Boxed view with search). * Globally my worry is that while the boxed view seems nicer visually, I think it’s less usable in practice. The improved search view is very nice though compared to the search view we have now. So IMO we need to find the right balance of LT view and Box view. Thanks a lot -Vincent