[wp-design] Shuttle Dash

[khaled Abou Alfa]

The plugins idea would be brilliant, however it's something that would have
to be linked to wp-plugin I think in order to get everything policed
properly?

On 9/26/05, Michael Heilemann <heilemann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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