On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I like a lot the idea of providing links to blends from the Debian > homepage [1], thanks for proposing (and revamping) the idea! However, > from the above paragraph I do not understand what you needed to > generalize and why it is blocking the implementation of the proposal. > Can you be more specific about that?
Well, you can find the original proposal at http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2010/07/msg00048.html Message-id: <[email protected]> in which I suggested to change the welcoming sentence to Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with thousands of ready to be installed packages[LINK]. Debian is as a great OS for Juniors [Debian-Junior] as for the scientists [Debian-Science]. Debian has being used in Medicine [Debian-Med] and to help people with disabilities [Accessibility]. But there is even more of Debian -- see other "blends" [Blends], "Ports" [Ports page], and packages [LINK]. which should be the first step. 2nd step was to utilize our space Debian banner on http://www.debian.org/ and populate it with logo icons to specific most popular and ports and make it imagemap with clickable links so they could become active (may be grow and shine a bit in stars fashion) upon "over". But I haven't got chance to stretch my limited design skills to come up with a mockup which I would have been what I meant by "generalize"... sorry for not clear description. Additionally, we could come up with "(Weekly) Featured Debian Project" entry, which would provide a 1-2 sentences description + link to some Debian subproject chosen randomly (or not so), and placed somewhere high (may be even right after the banner) on the main page. > I guess one of the problems that needs to be solved is to find place on > www.d.o without turning that page into a link hell. Have you discussed > the idea with the -www team and/or submitted a bug report against > www.d.o about it? links itself are not bad (wiki were found useful to be that way). Bad is the dump of lists of links. If links are harmonic parts of sentences or images, I think they are only useful. -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
