[wp-design] Shuttle Dash

[Michael Heilemann]

3 columns sounds good to me to be honest.

Chris has made a 'update available' feature for K2, which will get
released one of these days, and it made me think that it would be cool
if both WordPress itself, but also themes and plugins, could make use
of something like that for notifying the user of updates... (Phew!
Long sentence).



On 9/25/05, Joen Asmussen <joen at noscope.com> wrote:
> To be honest, my gut feeling is we should keep the dashboard simple --
> simpler than it is now, and let it be just that: "Welcome to the
> Wordpress admin". Except for the obvious design niceties we'll be doing,
> I'd want this:
>
> * Less blog posts aggregated (imho, 5 - 8 are more than enough: do
> anyone read any more?)
> * Less WP blog posts (2 newest?)
> * Drafts to the top
> * 2 or 3 column layout, not the current one with a floating box on the
> right.
>
> I'll hopefully get time to do some sketches soon!
>
>
>
>
> Michael Heilemann wrote:
>
> > Highlighting the dev blogs is a good idea; except most of the stuff on
> > there is irrelevant to 99% of the people using WP.
> >
> > I think it would be cooler to aggregate something like Planet
> > WordPress or something like it. Skim the cream so to speak...
> >
> > I never installed any Dashboard 'Widgets', so I don't know what's out
> > there, but I think there's a lot of possibilities for it.
> >
> > On 9/24/05, *Chris Davis * <chrisdmitri at gmail.com
> > <mailto:chrisdmitri at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     So I guess I should do that, since I have already written a Shortstat
> >     plugin as well... Bah.  The Dashboard is a very active place of
> >     contention.
> >
> >     Had it stayed the way I had designed it way back when (tm) things
> >     would be better, but Matt wanted to highlight the dev blog news,
> >     which
> >     is honestly a good idea.  I just don't fancy it being that prominent.
> >
> >     On other thing we need to think about is using an xml-rpc webservice
> >     to notify users when there is an update to WP.  I am working on
> >     one of
> >     those for K2 right now.  It would greatly simplify the process of
> >     getting users to upgrade when there is a security update.
> >
> >     I mention this so we can think about how to integrate it visually.
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