Guillermo Reporter
	Description • 17 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; es) AppleWebKit/419.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0

Hi. 

If you think that these is so stupid, directly eraseme please (these bug, not me).

I am a developper to, but years working with these ugly people called users, make me think diferent.

Simplify, unify, filter, search. It could be easyer for the user. These is my own paradigm, so i propose:

In preference, only one tab width all that isn't core of firefox, that is: Extensions, Plugin (What's the diferent is for a normal user about these?), themes... You have a list, with all extras you have, a link to find more an a itunes like filtering sistem (now you can select what to see: text filters, games, themes, format procesors (like pdf, swf, dwg).

A extra directory could be insert too in that list like itunes do with his online store (hey, You will can buy/shell extras for firefox !!! -> companys will make ad for use firefox :-) ).

What i say is not to erase options, is to have the same options, but you can access it easyst.


If you consider that i am not a crazy man, askme for a conceptual usability for firefox, but i don't want to change the user interface a lot. People already now your actual interface, so make big changes will be confusing.

Thanks for your work.


Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Confusing--- plugins, extensions, themes

Expected Results:  
Categorify extras:

Text filters/editors
Image procesing filters
Format process (swf, pdf, mov, avi, torrent, edk)
Fun
Games
Tools
Webpages hacks
Webpages themes (stylishm, for example i download a skin for google reader). I don't have to go to stylish configuration to disable it (OH NO OTHER MENU FOR ME !!! )
...
...
...

I use safari :-P

	Dave Townsend [:mossop]
	Comment 1 • 17 years ago

There are some quite key differences between the main types (extensions, themes, plugins) which can add confusion to users if you just grouped them all in the same list. They would get frustrated that they coulding uninstall some but not others, enable/disable some but not others etc.

That said we do have plans to simplify the add-ons UI to be just one page using most of the suggestions you have where possible.

	Dave Townsend [:mossop]
	Comment 2 • 16 years ago

Valid request, not sure where it will go at this point.

	Przemyslaw Bialik
	Comment 3 • 16 years ago

With users having many plugins and way more extensions I'm not sure it is a good idea to combine them all on one page (what's really wrong with the current tabbed interface ?).

> That said we do have plans to simplify the add-ons UI to be just one page using
> most of the suggestions you have where possible.
Please add link to mockups / proposals if such would be made available.

	Dave Townsend [:mossop]
	Comment 4 • 16 years ago

(In reply to comment #3)
> With users having many plugins and way more extensions I'm not sure it is a
> good idea to combine them all on one page (what's really wrong with the current
> tabbed interface ?).

This actually makes it more of a good idea in my opinion, why should you need to search through 3/4 long lists to find the add-on you are looking for when one list will do?

> > That said we do have plans to simplify the add-ons UI to be just one page using
> > most of the suggestions you have where possible.
> Please add link to mockups / proposals if such would be made available.

Added the old design, this is to be reiterated closer to the time when this feature will be implemented.

	Przemyslaw Bialik
	Comment 5 • 16 years ago

(In reply to comment #4)
> why should you need
> to search through 3/4 long lists to find the add-on you are looking for when
> one list will do?
Well, if I want to find an add-on, I know what type it is of (most of the times clicking is not needed because last selected tab is opened e.g. extensions) and if I want to browse 1 type of add-ons other types would only clutter the list / distract etc.

Final draft of new EM/AM (AM/PM ;) is not ready so it is hard to comment more (seeing how much work has been put on the wiki the change is probably inevitable - maybe it wouldn't be bad, I just don't have much issues with the current one).

	Wladimir Palant
	Comment 6 • 16 years ago

(In reply to comment #5)
> Well, if I want to find an add-on, I know what type it is of

That's not really true. I have seen more than enough evidence that most users have no idea about the difference between extensions and plugins. So they will inevitably search both lists when looking for something.

	Dave Townsend [:mossop]
	Comment 7 • 14 years ago

With the new user interface we strongly considered doing this however we felt that maintaining some separation was still important both so we can show entirely different styles of views for different types (theme selectors for example) and because different types of add-ons give you different options.

We have however added search which should help find the add-on you are looking for regardless of its type.

	Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]
	Comment 8 • 14 years ago

(In reply to comment #7)
> We have however added search which should help find the add-on you are looking
> for regardless of its type.

And to add, you can also search with an empty string which will list all installed add-ons.