> Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 17:15:05 +0200 > From: Claus Schwarm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:19:23 +0200 > Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > About subsites like Evolution's, my opinion is > that any website being at > > *.gnome.org/* needs to have by default the > *.gnome.org common header. > > [...] > > I'd like to note that I disagree. ;-) > > There are many projects hosted by the GNOME servers. > Many of them are > not in one of the official GNOME packages. They just > happen to have an > account, probably because of bugzilla.
Do we have a full list of everything that is on the GNOME servers? Is http://gnomesupport.org/, for example? That uses the common header, but its URL makes it look separate. > These project may attract users from different > operating systems. These > users don't search for a desktop, but for > applications. The concept of a > "desktop" is usually unknown and confusing to most > people. They are used > to the rule "one operating system <=> one desktop". Very true. It took me a long time to figure out what a 'desktop environment' is. (The GNOME about page doesn't really say, BTW.) But GNOME is a project. People can understand that Evolution is an application produced by a larger organization called GNOME. But there is a case for having two tiers: * 'core' sites that have the common priamry link bar * outer sites that don't I think all sites should clearly link to www.gnome.org in their header. I'd like to see a common look across all sites, so even if some sites don't use the common primary link bar, they still have a common header design, and so you feel you're within the gnome universe. > I can also see this from a GNOME Journal point of > view: Our visitors > want to read interesting stories. > <snip) > If they get interested in what GNOME is, there's > always a link to > www.gnome.org. Actually, on http://gnomejournal.org/ I can't see how to get to GNOME. > We already have a rather similar header on our main > community sites. > Instead of dicussing something that will solve _not > a single problem_, > we should try to get real stuff done. IMHO, of > course. ;-) True, we have MUCH bigger problems to deal with. Such as library.gnome.org for example! :) Or fixing the docs on the website which are still 2.10 (please!) These two issues are far more important than a common header. Or even putting a non-ugly header on the wiki. Even the old header would do. Our documentation in yelp has web links that go straight to the wiki. The way it looks right now, a novice user has no idea where they've landed. ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
