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  • From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: "pcplantdb" <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] PIW, Eden and PFAF
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:03:08 -1000 (HST)

Aloha,

Thanks for the suggestions Marco, you are providing valuable input from a
QA-test perspective on language issues and search functionality.

gracias,
John S.

> My suggestions:
>
> * More documentation about the Keyword-Search with examples
> * More information on the mainsite about the vision (specification)
> (or a link to the WIKI,dev.permaculture.com)
>
> -> A more PFAF-style OPTIONS-based-search
>
> especially for someone like me with poor englishknowlege a keywordsearch
> isn't the "yellow of the egg" (maybe thats nonsense in english:-))
> Its always easy to read a foreign text,like a founded plant description,
> but
> guessing the right searchwords can be frustrating.
>
> To manage the huge heap of Plants I would like to have OPTION-based
> Filters.
>
> Example: After just looking for a "bean" , I would like to add a
> (Optionbased, maybe with a map) Filter for plants growing well in Germany
> in
> light shadow, after that i would like to add a filter for climbing plants
> (maybe with little icons, demonstrating the "Form" of the plant). After
> that
> I would like to search for others plants with this 2 filters, ...
> As registered user I would like to save und reuse such filters.
>
> I'm pretty shure that there are other users that prefer a
> "Klickable"-Interface, especial non-native-englishspeaking
> Non-permaculture-experts.
>
> Saludos, Marco
>

John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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