[Greasemonkey] us.o ideas, gm UI ideas and my own script

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 8/1/05, Sam Ooi <samuelooi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, this is a 3 part email:
> 
> 1. US.O ideas
> Just a simple point really - I suppose the best example of what US.O
> is trying to achieve is Mozilla Update.  A script repository with
> reviews, ratings, script submissions (and perhaps a revision system).
> However, the key benefits of collecting scripts in one place (aside
> from a serach function), is some sort of ranking, e.g. Top 20 scripts
> downloaded/viewed/recently revised/new/.

I disagree that ranking popularity is a core function.  I basically
never use that feature of Moz Update, but maybe I'm weird.
 
> If the powers that be don't implement a ratings system (which has
> shown to be abusable as in Moz Update), then how do we start counting
> the downloads?  I mean, I'm sure nobody wants to lose the
> right-click/install script ability.
> 

I'd like to see batting average (i.e. # of script downloads divided by
# of detail views) in addition to raw popularity.

> 2.  GM user-interface ideas
> I'm a keen proponent of getting -rid- of the monkey face on the status
> bar.  In its current implementation, it doesn't add much to the whole
> GM experience and the from discussions here, the various proposed
> monkey faces would be really useful to a developer, not a user.  

Hmm, I think the idea is that an unusually high percentage of GM users
are also script developers.

>In
> 0.5.0, I'd like to see an option to get rid of the monkey face from
> the status bar.  

Huh?  Having the image there bothers you that much?