Re: RFC 32 - Xaraya Usability Reccomendations v0.9

2.1.3-8 Breadcrumb Support:
    Big giant fat +1 for this widget. The Breadcrumb is one of the most
important navigation widgets on the web.

2.1.3-13 Printer Friendliness:
    I hope you don't really mean _all_ pages. How often do you really want
to print an admin page or your poll results? This could add some clutter.

2.2.2-1. Web Standards:
    Why stop at XHTML 1.0 Strict when 1.1 isn't that much different and is
the latest standard? It takes very little to turn 1.0 strict markup into
1.1, let's go all the way.

3.1.1-2b phpMyAdmin:
    phpMyAdmin is indeed a very useful tool, but it is not required to use
Xaraya; leave it out of the core. Most of us already have a copy of this
installed either via cpanel or by hand. Those that don't have this already
could install it as a module. Distributing this with the core just adds
unnecessary bloat.

3.1.1-2e Component Configuration:
    Get rid of "List", but we need a better term than "Regenerate".

3.1.1-3 Site Kits:
    Very cool idea, but should not take up a significant amount of core
developers time. This is really candy that might be best handled by a few
volunteers dedicated specifically to this task.

3.2-3 Groups & Permissions GUI:
    Just like to add my support to this effort :-)

3.3.3 Editor (Super User):
    A welcome addition.

4.1.1-3 Article MetaCommands:
    This should be extensible.

4.1.2-1 my.<domainname>.com:
    This should absolutely not be the behavior.Very few people use much of
this functionality and it's pretty annoying (and sometimes confusing) to
have to click around again to get to where you wanted to be.
    A user should end up wherever he was trying to go before hitting the
login screen. I.e. if the user was trying to get to a picture gallery that
required registered users only, they should be taken there after the login
screen. If someone logs in via a menublock (or field in the header or
footer) they should be returned to the same screen they filled in the form
from (front page, article, whatever). If all else fails they should be taken
to the front page.
    It would be nice to offer myYahoo type functionality so a user can
customize his/her own homepage (including choosing blocks, colors, etc.),
but just dropping people at Your Account after logging in isn't nearly the
same.

4.2.2-1 DMOZ/Yahoo Index:
    This should be available in the functionality, but not required. If I
have just a dozen links it doesn't make sense to make people click through
more than just the "Web Links" link before seeing them.

Appendix A Installation Reporting and Automated Updated Tools:
    Remember that one of the target environments for Xaraya is a corporate
intranet. Many of these don't have access to the outside network. While
installation notification, registration, and update tools are all well and
good, make sure alternatives are available for those servers without an
available connection to Xaraya.com.

Overall I think you've done a wonderful job on this. Very well thought out.
Congrats!