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This page isn't very user-friendly. Why not use select/dropdown/pulldown and multi-select lists, checkboxes, and limited text input fields instead of throwing everything into cluttered textareas that don't even fill the entire screen? Sure doesn't make me want to use DPL... -[[User:Eep²|Eep²]] 05:36, 23 July 2007 (CEST) | This page isn't very user-friendly. Why not use select/dropdown/pulldown and multi-select lists, checkboxes, and limited text input fields instead of throwing everything into cluttered textareas that don't even fill the entire screen? Sure doesn't make me want to use DPL... -[[User:Eep²|Eep²]] 05:36, 23 July 2007 (CEST) | ||
| − | :Indeed the special page doesn´t look very nice in its current state. The current version is only a rudimentary prototype - see the discussion in [[DPL: | + | :Indeed the special page doesn´t look very nice in its current state. The current version is only a rudimentary prototype - see the discussion in [[DPL:Requests for new features]]. I still hope that somebody might want to build a nice user interface - the functionality under the hood is all there. [[User:Gero|Gero]] 12:02, 23 July 2007 (CEST) |
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| + | ::Well, no offense, but why don't you, since you wrote it and know it best? It's not that hard to design a better UI for it but you're going to ''seriously'' need to "dumb it down" for average users to even ''think'' about using DPL. I was all excited when I initially saw what it could do but then immediately turned off by how to get it do it. :/ -[[User:Eep²|Eep²]] 12:43, 24 July 2007 (CEST) | ||
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User-friendliness
This page isn't very user-friendly. Why not use select/dropdown/pulldown and multi-select lists, checkboxes, and limited text input fields instead of throwing everything into cluttered textareas that don't even fill the entire screen? Sure doesn't make me want to use DPL... -Eep² 05:36, 23 July 2007 (CEST)
- Indeed the special page doesn´t look very nice in its current state. The current version is only a rudimentary prototype - see the discussion in DPL:Requests for new features. I still hope that somebody might want to build a nice user interface - the functionality under the hood is all there. Gero 12:02, 23 July 2007 (CEST)
- Well, no offense, but why don't you, since you wrote it and know it best? It's not that hard to design a better UI for it but you're going to seriously need to "dumb it down" for average users to even think about using DPL. I was all excited when I initially saw what it could do but then immediately turned off by how to get it do it. :/ -Eep² 12:43, 24 July 2007 (CEST)
