Hi everybody, this discussion is geared to the current (future) users of friendlist. As I created the initial views for friendlist, I started out with the mindset to create generic views, which users can customize further. However it ended up being more confusing and messy. I would like to take a different approach and create views that work better out of the box for the default relationships shipped with friendlist, namely, friend and fan.
So I created a view for management which is exposed through tabs rather then menu items. Another view for public display, which has three blocks available for displaying friends, following and followers, which in turn link to three page views. Following and followers take on Twitter like behavior with 'fan' being the relationship. A final third view for activity, which shows the node activity of the people you follow.
The enhancements are no bloated menu; Better straight forward management through tabs; Better naming of views eliminating super long views classes; Trimmed it down from five views to three; Out of the box picture support. I've provided a stylesheet to align the pictures properly by default; Probably some other enhancements.
Off course change is not always welcome, so I didn't want to assume this is something you want. If you find time please have a look at them and tell me what you think should be different. Your help would make the module a better experience.
The files are attached in the issue queue, http://drupal.org/node/389048.
Thanks everybody,
Marius
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