Keith Smith wrote:
I recently promised merlinofchaos that I would help with the Views 2 documentation. I'm glad that I did.
In reviewing Drupal 6 reviews posted across the web, I'd recently read the "Views preview" section of the post http://tek4dpipol.blogspot.com/2008/02/look-at-drupal-6-core-features-2.html, complete with screenshot. I'd seen various Views UI related posts on g.d.o, though I didn't follow any of them closely. I'd seen UI-related discussion scroll past in IRC. I assumed I was pretty well on top of "state of the art" Drupal interface designs.
I was so very wrong.
I checked out Views 2 over the weekend, in order to get a feel for how I might could help with strings and documentation. It is fair to say that the new interface "blew me away." It is not evolutionary, but revolutionary. Thomas Kuhn would call it a paradigm shift. It's damn sexy.
Earl, what I've seen so far is just fantastic. You -- and everyone who has helped you with this -- have made something special here. I think I want to be you when I grow up.
--ks
Thanks Keith! I rolled an official alpha release so people can play with this. I'm very interested in feedback about this UI from the community (admittedly I like positive feedback here, but I'll accept the negative too =) Personally, this UI feels far, far better than I thought it would. And I am likely biased; I understand it very well. But manipulating a view is easy. My only question is...how difficult is this to understand? The idea here is that it's broken up into bite-sized chunks so that the amount of understanding needed at any given time is reduced. I think that helps a lot. Here's the release announcement and a screenshot: http://www.angrydonuts.com/views-6-x-2-0-alpha-2-released