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diff --git a/docs/source/vision.rst b/docs/source/vision.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fad248df --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/vision.rst @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +========================================= + Design Document: GNU MediaGoblin vision +========================================= + +.. Note:: + + When we get a wiki, this will get moved there. It's here for now + mostly because we didn't have a better place for it. + +.. Note:: + + By the time you read this, it's very likely it'll be out of date. + + +This document attempts to describe the envisioned workflow of GNU +MediaGoblin, from a structural standpoint. For now, *nothing* in this +document is probably the eventual, final way that things will work. +Eventually as things come to exist, this document will hopefully be +refactored to describe how things *do* work. + +This documented on hopes, dreams, rainbows, and unicorns. And it will +come to fulfillment through a lot of hard work. Your hard work and my +hard work. + + +Look and feel +============= + +Default look and feel +--------------------- + +Mairin Duffy made mockups for something called Design Hub. That +project did a number of things differently than the way we intend to +go, but it's probably a good idea to steal a good number of ideas from +here. + +http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/another-design-hub-mockup/ + + +User profile mockup +------------------- + +Here's an ascii art mockup on how things might look for a user's page:: + + _____ + |_( )_| USER NAME + | | | + |_/_\_| + + Recent artwork: + ___________________ ___________________________ + | ___ ___ ___ | |_About_User_Name___________| + | |pic| |pic| |pic| | | | + | |___| |___| |___| | | Some sort of self- | + | ___ ___ ___ | | description probably goes | + < | |pic| |pic| |pic| | > | here | + | |___| |___| |___| | | | + | ___ ___ ___ | | | + | |pic| |pic| |pic| | | | + | |___| |___| |___| | | | + |___________________| |___________________________| + + ___________________________ + Recent favorites: |_Recent_activity___________| + ___________________ | New picture: DragonFace | + | ___ ___ ___ | | 4/2/2010 | + | |pic| |pic| |pic| | |---------------------------| + | |___| |___| |___| | | Sup yall this is some kind| + | ___ ___ ___ | | of mini blogpost. Maybe | + < | |pic| |pic| |pic| | > | the interface will allow | + | |___| |___| |___| | | for this? | + | ___ ___ ___ | |___________________________| + | |pic| |pic| |pic| | + | |___| |___| |___| | ___________________________ + |___________________| |_External_comments_here____| + | Dang! This stuff rocks | + | - Joe 4/2/2010 | + |---------------------------| + | Nice job on the dragon | + | - Morgan 4/2/2010 | + '---------------------------' + +So there's this type of interface that puts a lot of different types +of info on the same screen. I'm not sure that I like it. It's +possible we'll go with something much more minimalist. Maybe we'll go +with something "tabbed" the way statusnet / http://identi.ca is on +user pages. + +It's possible that we could support multiple profile styles here, +and you could load whatever profile style you want as set by user +preferences? + + +Uploading mockup +---------------- + +Here's an uploading mockup:: + + Upload an image + + [ Title ] + + Upload: [ ] [Browse] + ___________________________________________ + | | + | | + | o0O | + | o ' | + | o_.' | + | | + | Uploading... OK | <-, + | Resizing... OK | | + | | Area replaced w/ resized + | | image when done + |___________________________________________| + ________________ + License |_CC BY-SA_____|V| + ___________________________________________ + | Description goes here. | + | You can type it up in here and everything | + | and it'll show up under the image. | + | | + | Possibly we should allow some kind of | + | markup... maybe markdown? | + '___________________________________________' + + __________________________________________ + |> Advanced | + ------------------------------------------ + + +Customizability +--------------- + +General site theming customizability is pretty easy! Since we're +using `Jinja <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/>`_ we can just set up +user-overriding directories. + +We'll also figure out some sort of way to provide theming "packages", +eventually. + + |