Quim, your specific design of the global header is obviously _not_ able to deal with our requirements: According to your own explanations, it's unable to include links to our 'Contact' pages and to our 'About' pages.
The 'Contact' and the 'About' links are part of the top-level navigation for a reason: They (are going to) satisfy important use cases -- those of journalists and the press, and those of people new to and interested in GNOME. The only use case your presented is: "Somebody might visit the GUADEC pages without knowning what GNOME is." This is a valid use case. However, it assumes that these people will find a link to the GUADEC pages that is _not_ mentioned in a GNOME context. I can hardly think of such a case. It fits probably 0,01% of your visitors. My estimate is that it will be less than 25 people in 2006. Your use case also assumes that these people will get interested in GNOME instead of just closing the GUADEC page. This brings my estimate down to 5 people in 2006. For these 5 people, it's sufficient to use the already existing explanation in the 'About' section of the GUADEC pages: Just make 'GNOME' a link to the GNOME homepage. You descibed a corner case. We shouldn't risk to miss important use cases for corner cases. Additionally, agreeing on the proposal would obviously add a major constraint to the design of other pages, especially our homepage. Why should we commit ourselves to such a constraint right now? For this reason, I see no need to discuss this specific proposal any further. As a global header, it's rejected from my point of view. Of course, you can still use it as an element in the GUADEC pages. It would be nice if you could either sync the links in the grey top bar to the current top-level links or remove the links completely, though. There's a small risk that your visitors might get confused when clicking them. However, this is your decision. Please note that I really like the rest of the design of the GUADEC pages. They look nice, indeed. Cheers, Claus _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
