On 04/04/2015 09:42 PM, Duncan wrote: > TL;DR: (1) Please consider either making Documentation a top-level-menu > link (preferable), or at least change Support to Support and > Documentation. (2) On the documentation lander page, add a "one big > list" link to a browser-keyword-searchable list of docs, like the old > docs project page had. > > Looking for the news glep to double-check the title header max char limit > (for the shorewall news-item thread was the first time I've had to use > the new website. > > I *HATE* it! It's a NIGHTMARE to navigate, compared to the old one! > > There's all this nice fuzzy buzzword bingo, but actually FINDING anything > like DOCUMENTATION is an exercise in frustration! > > OK, no direct docs link. Well, "getting started" should have a nice > documentation link, since you don't get far on gentoo without docs... No, > not there... Well then, "learn more" CERTAINLY must lead to > documentation allowing you to do just that!... BLECH!!! NO!!! Nothing > there but more buzzword bingo (and a contact link and links to share more > of my interests with privacy-insensitive corporations that already know > too much about me at the bottom). OK, OK, Get involved must SURELY have > that doc link, since people will need some documentation in ordered to do > so!... Ugh, another rabbit trail... Oh, DUH! Must be under SUPPORT! OK, > there it is! > > But even if I KNOW to look under support, it's STILL two clicks to > documentation, where it WAS just one! > > And once on the documentation page, again, a whole bunch of fuzzy > categories! Where's the "one big list" link, where a simple browser > keyword search will immediately find the document for configuring gentoo > for whatever fancy technology you're wanting to get up and running, be it > something fancy like mdraid or lvm, or more basic like one's init system > of choice or sound or OpenGL? > > But at least put a nice direct one-click link to docs direct on the front > page. Please? > > (Tho unless it's directly in the main copy, I guess it'd still be two, > since you have to click that weird icon with no actual words saying it's > a menu, to open that, before you actually click what you want... *IF* you > can actually find or guess what it's called... on the waaayyy too vague > menu.) >
In case others have trouble: it's under Support -> Documentation. It leads you to a page that lets you search the wiki, or pick the category your needs fit under. I found it without issue, and I hadn't used the new layout yet. Aside from the Devmanual, most of Gentoo's docs are on the wiki, so you could make a bookmark and setup a search shortcut for it. Just bookmark the following address in Firefox: https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?search=%s Give it a keyword like 'gdocs' or something, then you can do "gdocs Alsa" and it'll search the wiki for ALSA. I'm not sure how it's done in Opera or Chrom[e|ium].
