Hi all, as you may or may not know, we (mainly Jakub and me, so far) have starte to work on a 'Getting Started' document in the gnome-getting-started-docs repository. It is a bit different in style from our other docs, since it is pretty heavy on videos, but it does use Mallard and we'll show it using yelp, the first time you log in, coming from gnome-initial-setup.
We've recently done a review of this work, and in the context of that review we've also looked at our other docs and our release notes. As a result, Jon McCann has started this page https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Help. it collects some ideas for how we could make all these efforts more unified and useful. While the page is currently pretty bare, you can see a few things there that we'd like to change. For yelp: - should use the same patterns as other GNOME 3 applications - the combined search/title/bookmark entry is too prominent and makes the window look like a web browser - I wouldn't be surprised if people typed urls into the entry - the default size of the yelp window is too small For our current documentation, we have lots of great content, but the starting page is a bit problematic: - the changing thumbnails on hover feel too gimmicky (and the thumbnails are not even the same size) - the 3x3 grid below has far too much in it - it feels like it is trying to cover everything, instead of focusing on the important - we should also stop using the term 'Desktop' and just call it what it is: 'GNOME Help' Jon's mockup show an idea how we could combine 'whats new' (ie release notes), 'getting started' (similar to what we're putting together in gnome-getting-started-docs) and 'common tasks' in an initial page. Let me know what you think. Matthias _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
