On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 18:06 -0400, Michael Hill wrote: > Hi Shaun, > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote: > > Goals: > > * Make guides more compact and easier to scan. I want people > > to spend as little time as possible on guide pages. > > * Trim down those links trails. Especially when we get guide > > pages linked from guide sections of essentially the same > > name: "Hardware > Printing >> Printing >>" > > > > So I took a stab at using the grid ("toronto") layout on the > > hardware guide page. This is the same thing I did on prefs. > > It's not done. I'm not sure what to do with some pages. > > > > Using the grid layout with links in descs gives us, I think, > > a nice way of promoting some subtopics without introducing > > extra link trails and guide links and navigational craziness. > > > > Patch attached. This is only on a local branch on my machine, > > because I'm keeping master stable. I'd like feedback. > > Yes, it's cleaner. Would this be done with all the pages that have a > heading in index.page?
Not necessary. Files has a special layout that I think works pretty well for it. Now, we might want to do a grid for the things that aren't in the top list. It's worth exploring. I'm tending to like this kind of layout for "super guides", i.e. guides that just collect other guides. The slick thing we're doing with the grids is the desc links, and that only makes sense if the primary links are guides themselves. Plus, guides tend to have short titles that fit more nicely in a three-column grid layout. If we packed a grid layout full of titles like "Browse files on a server or network share", I'm pretty sure we wouldn't like the results. More specifically: "Web, email & chat" Very few sections, each with very few topics. "Internet connections" just serves as a shortcut to a top-level guide, plus some promoted links (which is what the grid layout with desc links is good at). But to use a grid, we'd have to make guides for "Chat", "Email", and "Browsing the web". And with the topics we have now, the results wouldn't be very good. "Sound, video & pictures" Kind of the same deal. The first section is full of stuff that should arguably be findable under "Hardware". So maybe there should be a "Sound" guide that gets put in a grid on both "Hardware" and this guide. But the sections in this guide aren't full enough yet. "Internet & networking" This might work as a grid. There are some topics at the top that I think just don't fit into some subguide. So maybe an approach like "Files" would be best. "Universal access" I'm pretty happy with the results on this guide. It's using titled linklist links, which is not the norm. But for this guide, I like it. "Tips & tricks" Unless we get a *lot* more tricks, extra subguides is very much overkill. Leave it as is for now. At about a dozen topics, investigate organizing it using sections or the links element. "Get more help" It's two topics. So, no on the grid. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
